Hotlinking is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site by a web page belonging to a second site.
Questions tagged [hotlinking]
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Is there anyway to make hotlinking expire immediately for a website
I would like all links in the person's history to expire immediately so that when you click on them, it just takes you to the home page.
I would also like it to apply to the back buttons, so that when you click the back button it takes you back to…
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Redirecting Hotlinked images with Low Resolution versions
i am working on website of a Digital Gadgets Manufacturer.
Product images are hotlinked from hundreds of blogs & forums. which is causing bandwidth issues.
we want to replace all hotlinked images with their low resolution versions,…
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how to block hotlinking for my media files?
I have swf& images files that can be hotlinked from otherwebsites like in this question
How can I use HTTP Referer header to have my swf files viewed only from my website ?
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My files are hosted at my server, I am not using Amazon S3 service, or…
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Replacing Hotlinked images with Low Resolution versions
i am working on website of a Digital Gadgets Manufacturer.
Product images are hotlinked from hundreds of blogs & forums. which is causing bandwidth issues.
we want to replace all hotlinked images with their low resolution versions,…
Mudassar Bashir
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How to protect images from being hotlinked?
I have tried the below code in htaccess to stop my images from being hotlinked, but it is not working.
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.example.com/" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.example.comm$"…
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Restricting image hot-linking with G-WAN
I want to serve static galleries, and I would like to know if G-WAN can restrict hot-linking to specified files?
Restricting image hot-linking would be good, but what I really want to know if there is possibility to disallow hot-linking images but…
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Silex - Images (and Stylesheets and JavaScripts) and Hotlink Watermarking
I'm transitioning my website to Silex (first time working with a framework), but the images aren't showing up.
This is my .htaccess:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
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Preventing direct access to files in IIS 7
I have a PHP application running on a Micrisoft IIS 7 server. The application shows PDF files on an iFrame, which contains user's sensitive data that I wouldn't like to be directly accessed by anyone that knows the file address.
So basically, I'm…
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Somebody Is "Hijacking" My URL
I track traffic to the domains that I own through a "home brew" cookie system. One one site, I have noticed that I get a lot of HTTP referer traffic from one particular domain (http://www.getbig.com/). I did some sleuthing, and found out what this…
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Redirect linked image to content page
I have an image/video hosting site. In the likes of imgur. A lot of 'link-juice' I get is from people directly linking to the images. I dislike this. I want the ones that land on those pictures to be redirected to the actual page the images resided…
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Protecting CDN images from access
I have files hosted on a CDN and would like to protect the files from being easily accessed from outside my (wordpress) website.
I have seen sites where for example it would have an image like this perfectly…
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This Image was hotlinked
I am working on wordpress multisite. I have Total 4 Sites.Only Main site is working good. In other 3 sites I am facing issue for images - "This image was hotlinked"
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Can you prevent hotlinking audio files?
I have a script in the .htaccess file to prevent hotlinking of images and audio files.
The website allows downloading of the mp3 audio file.
Using this setup for the past year yielded no problems, until recently.
One user could not download any of…
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htaccess redirect request from domain
I have one domain that is hotlinging my JS scripts, how to send them other script they asked with .htaccess?
I can block request with:
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^(www\.)?exampole\.com$
RewriteRule ^ - [F]
But how to serve them another script? Lets…
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