Stop hotlinking 1

[cali310]

I have tried a few of the scripts out there but none seem to work with FP2k. Anyone know of a site that has, or do you personally have, a script that will work with front page?

 

[MikeBarone]

I don't understand what you are asking for. Can you be more specific? Mike Barone

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[JohnYingling]

Found this.
"hotlinking is when someone else links to your pictures from their site, thus stealing bandwidth from you"

http://WWW.VBCompare.Com

 

[cali310]

Exactly. For instance a sit will put a link on their page and it will be something like

http://www.wherever.com/pictures/jan4/girl.jpg

and they see just the picture(using my bandwidth) without having to go thru my front page which would be

http://www.wherever.com.

 

[JohnYingling]

If it was a problem for me, I would point the IMG SRC= to an ASP instead of an image with a URL string attached identifying the image plus an encrypted expiration date/time for asking for the image. I've done this for delivering Signature images from a bit an image stored temporarily in an Application variable. The ASP MUST use Response.ContentType = "image/gif" or "image/jpg" and RESPONSE.BINARYWRITE to write the image back. It can be difficult to debug because any error attempts to write the text of the error with a RESPONSE.WRITE which just causes the image not to appear.
Your problem is that there is no way to read a binary (image) file in VBScript because the FileSystemObject converts what it thinks is ASCII to Unicode. However, if you can put a VB6 component on your site, here is the answer.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q193/9/98.ASP

http://WWW.VBCompare.Com

 

[MikeBarone]

You can keep this from happening using .htaccess file on your UNIX server. Mike Barone

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[MikeBarone]

Opps, forgot the URL:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

Mike Barone

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