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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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htaccess - Prevent Hotlinking/Webpage Scraping & Redirect Attacker's Webpage to Warning Page

Malicious website owners are using the contents of our website to say example.com on their websites say spam.com like:
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Laravel download response with hotlink protection and low memory usage

I have a file download website and I serve the files through Laravel for hotlink protection, but it seems like downloads keep my php processes alive for a very long time (as some users have bad download speed). For hotlink protection I create a…
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How can I make an entire div a link, but also have other links inside?

I have a div. I want it to link somewhere when you click on it, but I also want to put other links inside it, so when you click on the other links you're redirected to one place, but if you click anywhere else you're redirected somewhere…
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More Eyeballs on my Poor mod_rewrite Attempt Please

We're changing the way users embed images in their blogs, but I need to make sure previously embedded images are still displayed. I'm trying to redirect legacy image embed links to either a static image or a single legacy image embed handling file.…
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Hotlinking photos from Facebook - an "ok" practice?

For my current website project, I wanted to off-load some bandwidth as well as data management to facebook - by this I mean: Use a public Facebook page as 3rd party host for images to use for our website (screenshots, info-graphics, etc) , thereby…
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Can I hide an image path on asp.net page without http Handler?

I have many static images under a directory in my site structure, and I'm not concerned with hotlinking or copy-protecting the images. For a myriad of reasons, what I need to do is not show the image path on the site (or show a fake one). Is there…
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Remove special characters

I'm protecting links with the following function function encode_html5($str){ return '#'.preg_replace("/0{1}([0-9a-f]{3})/i", "$1", implode("", unpack("H*", iconv("UTF-8", "UTF-16BE", $str)))); } The problem is some special characters…
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How to prevent downloads by directly accessing file via URL?

I am making an online streaming website where users can listen to audio or video files. Currently I am calling an mp3 file in an audio tag using below code. Play In my website a user can stream a…
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anti image hotlinking (custom regex)

I'd like to set up a regular expression that would disallow hotlinking of images that DO NOT end with the following pattern: -200.jpg The "200" can actually be "150" or "250" or any number between 100-999 (that is to say 3 chars). The .jpg can be…
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Prevent direct access to images using the browser url

I have a folder named - Images. This folder contains user profile pictures. Right now a user can see his image by just copying the image URL to his browser any time. This way he can also see other user's profile pics. What I want to achieve is - The…
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Wget: How to bypass "hotlinking" protected image

Is it possible to bypass "hotlink" image protection? i'm not trying to post it on other sites just to download. when i download the following image, using…
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Nginx - how to implement hotlinking prevention?

Seeking help from Nginx experts here. I want to block people accessing CSS or JS directly from my website. A bit like this: http://assets.behance.net/ I got this reference from ServerFault: https://serverfault.com/a/332493/117595 location ~*…
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How to prevent hotlinking dynamically ( without hard coding host domain ) using .htaccess HTTP_HOST and HTTP_REFERER

I want to know how to prevent hotlinking to resources on my site without hard coding the domain name. I need this since the software will be used for multiple domains, and may be used as an installation. It would not be feasible to instruct every…
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nginx redirect if other referer than my site

I have nginx webserver and people are starting to hotlink to download.php and that gives me nothing. I wish to add 4 white list sites from which it is possible to hotlink (domains of my site) and make others that hotlink to my site get redirected…
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How to allow Google Doc to display hotlinked files?

I have restricted hotlinking my files in using htaccess. But I need those files to be displayed in Google Doc Viewer. In htaccess I allow Google Docs to hotlink my files, but it is not working. Please help me in this Below is the code I used in my…
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