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Hotlinking is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site by a web page belonging to a second site.

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understanding the hotlinking of images

i have one image which works fine if reloaded in browser or if you enter in browser and click enter it will load else it will show nothing i have checked locally as well and it is not working if kept in img tag but if that image is opened seperately…
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nginx hotlink protection not working

So, I'm trying to use this: location ~ \.(jpe?g|png|gif)$ { valid_referers none blocked domain.com *.domain.com; if ($invalid_referer) { return 403; } } Which supposedly "works", yet everyone online hotlink tester still pulls up the…
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hotlink protection check header 200 is coming but page is protected

hi i want to check if a image is hotlinked protected or not. i searched several sites and found the http header as best solution for checking this but when i implemented i found that it is giving wrong result. for example http header response is…
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nginx hotlink special redirect

First, sorry for my english. I try do some special hotlink prevent on my website. For example i have images on http://s1.example.com/i/img_123.jpg And if someone use this image on your own website in code, not redirect. But if he visit directly this…
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Proxying external images for SSL compliance

I've got a little Django site in which users can link to images on other sites in their comments. It's by no means a core feature. I've just moved the entire site to SSL. That has worked fine for the most part but remote images are obviously not…
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How to prevent bandwidth theft of my website and why I find my website IP address sometimes dedicated & sometimes shared

I think someone is stealing bandwidth of my website. To prevent this I enabled hotlink. But there are only extensions related to image. How can I protect my other files with extensions like .php or .asp? When I add .php or .asp extensions, I was…
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how do i prevent hotlinking of images in my wordpress site?

I have a wordpress website hosted on byethost.com which runs on a free account, now what the problem is that on some computers it shows that image hotlinking is disabled on my plan, is there a way to change my urls of images whithout giving my…
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Can I prevent SWF hotlinking with htaccess?

I have a website with some Flash games. I noticed that someone somehow copied my entire website using an online tool. I was notified by the security I implemented into my server. It seems this person is using a tool to scrape everything, because I…
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jQuery: How to get hotlink from url / hash?

I'm trying to obtain a hotlink from a url a user gets to via a link in an email Everything after the ? below: http://localhost:6547/m/intro/inbox/100003120?hotlink=8095cb20284c935d9ff32c0ed61b28f1&codekitCB=400521239.247318 I need to save that…
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Check if request is by user or by page

I am trying to restrict direct access and downloading of files from my resources folder. I have implemented this in my global.asax: void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e) { HttpApplication application =…
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IIS Prevent hotlinking of other sites' content on self-hosted websites

We want to avoid our own users from hotlinking to images and media outside our own domain. Is there a way to do this through IIS (version 8 on Windows Server 2012) ? We have the URL Rewrite module installed, but unsure how to develop a rule that…
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.htaccess redirect from image to article

im trying to redirect traffic i get from reddit to an article, but the image in the article is being hot-linked on reddit.com this is fine but im wondering if theres a way that when users click on the image on reddit.com with a path…
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jQuery: any way to append variable to img without it loading twice?

I'm trying to tweak this hotlink prevention method by having the img urls get the appended ?i only when visited by a JavaScript-enabled browser as opposed to bots. Using this in the $(document).ready(function() works: var img=…
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Prevent Google Image Search hotlink using Nginx rewrite

Google Image Search has the ability to point to the original image without displaying the website that is hosting that image. So I want to redirect those requests to a custom page within my site. Basically, I want to rewrite the following type of…
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Unable to prevent hotlinking to pdf files

I have thousands of pdf files on my website and I noticed that heaps of other websites have started stealing my pdfs by adding a direct link to these pdf files on their site. (sucks!). I have been desperately trying to prevent hotlinking to pdfs…
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