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Re: [mv] Blocking referrers from stealing images
****** message to minivend-users from Ken Berland <ken@hero.com> ******
you could password protect the directory.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com> ******
>
> > Is there any easy way (either thru Minivend or thru Apache) to block all
> > sites not my own from linking to our server images?
>
> I've done this, but it's a convoluted path and doesn't work with all
> browsers (i.e. Opera, which allows people to turn off HTTP_REFERER).
>
> Under Apache, you can use mod_rewrite to perform actions based on certain
> environment variables... So if HTTP_REFERER doesn't match a certain
> regex, return an embarassing graphic.
>
> I've taken the more circuitous route. All of my nice graphics are
> actually CGI scripts, doing extra things like checking the REFERER,
> keeping track of image hits in an SQL database, etc. (we sell inlining
> of our images, so this data is useful). It also makes it easier for
> me to add allowed hosts without restarting the server each time.
>
> Chris
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