July 16, 2004Prevent hotlinkingThomas Scott, writing in A List Apart, proposes a clever way to block bandwidth theft, aka HotLinking. ...if someone tries to hotlink one of your images, it’ll fail — the browser, instead of receiving an image file, will receive the result of showpic.php , which is sent as text/html . It’ll realise it can’t display it, and produce a broken image placeholder. Bandwidth saved. I wonder if this could be reworked to protect videos from hotlinking? I bet it could. Posted by jackhodgson at July 16, 2004 01:04 PM |
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