justjeni — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:05:24 +0000

That is great!

Jimmy Changa — Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:07:23 +0000

^^cool

BTW medic, Love that image.

disaster-master — Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:01:31 +0000

I found this Htaccess Disable Hotlinking Code Generator that generated the code below. It works too!!

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain.com(/).*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?seconddomain.com(/).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|GIF|jpg|JPG|jpeg|swf)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/images/hotlinker.gif [R,NC]

P.S. Hey DOC (medic119)!!

Jimmy Changa — Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:32:18 +0000

I'm not sure. All I know is it works now, yeah! lol

medic119 — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:05:23 +0000

I had wondered about that.

In my inital attempts a friend told me to use
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/thief\.jpg

and that should tell it to block all images except that one, but it didn't work.

Just curious, why not?

Jimmy Changa — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:26:16 +0000

There!!! Finally!!!

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?myscans.com(/).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg)$ http://www.myscans.com/hotlinked.gif [R,NC]

Be sure to make the swapped image to be of a different type you are blocking. For my site, it's the jpgs that I want blocked...so I made hotlinked.gif .

Since this seems to be the place

medic119 — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:48:32 +0000

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www\.)?domain.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|zip|png|swf)$ http://www.domain.net/hotlink/thief.jpg [R,L]

It blocks, but does not feed the new image out to the page.
Also I know this allows direct requests from the address bar, but should it allow the image from a page made thusly? I figured it should block it. I am running the test page from my local Harddrive and not the server.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test Page for Hotlinking</h1>
<img src="http://www.domain.net/images/a303.jpg">
</body>
</html>

Jimmy Changa — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 03:49:34 +0000

I used that shorter version for my site, but for some reason the alternate image isn't showing up. Hmmm.

disaster-master — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:34:28 +0000

YAY!! It works.
Thanks Suzanne and thanks T for bringing this subject up. I have been having major problems with people hotlinking images from me.

Sonia

LOL@busy
I think I will try doing an image.

When I discovered my hotlinkers, I did an image that said,
"SHAME ON ME!!
I am hotlinking this image from
someone elses site and and using
their bandwidth for my own good."

And I just named my "shame" image the same name as what they had stolen. Had to do about 8 of them which was time consuming.

I can't tell you what the first one I made said.
It was satisfying to see my "replacement" where their
stolen image was.

Busy — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:30:51 +0000

or smaller:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?webaddress.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.webaddress.com/stolen_image.gif [R,L]

and just make an image called 'stolen_image.gif' that can be anything (smaller the better in file size) that will display instead of other images. can say 'hot linking is a crime', 'now auto forwarding to porn site', 'this image hotlinked from ...', 'umm you've been naughty - go stand in the corner' ... or can just be a blank image (transparent gif)