external links

Someone is putting direct links to pictures on my web site on their web site. I have asked the web master to upload the picture to his account instead of using my precious bandwidth, but is there a way that I can I stop these external links from working? An .htaccess entry perhaps? I'm sure I read something about that, but I can't find it now.

Thanks!


Adrian

You can do this via an .htaccess file. Create one and place the following in it in your htdocs directory:

<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from host.net
deny from 0.0.0.
deny from 0.0.0.0
allow from all
</Limit>

NOTE: I use "host.net" and "0.0.0.0" as examples. Replace them with the hostname or the IP or subnet you want to block from accessing your site.

Thanks for your quick response, but isn't there a better solution? Since my previous post, I have discovered a few more sites which also have links to my pictures. I can't keep checking my logs and adding addresses to the deny list.

My log entries are like this...

"GET /gallery/beasup/01.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 157390 "http://www.hal-9000.net/wwwboard/messages/3/5/356993.html"

... and this...

"GET /gallery/misc/01.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1905 "http://olivialufkinonline.com/gallery/misc/en.html"

So, surely there is a way to check if olivialufkinonline.com appears in the path, and if not, deny the access. I certainly I hope so. I believe that a lot of free web hosts now block external requests, so there must be a simple way to do this, rather than checking the logs and updating a deny list.


Adrian

I have given you the best and only way to accomplish what you're asking for.

[grahm]

they have each have a Perl script to stop the hotlinkers.

http://www.confine.com/programs.shtml - look for "Antileech"

http://www.custom-cgi.com/free/bandwidth_protector/

http://www.spaceports.com/~scifi/bandwidthbob.html

hope these help...