Comments on: How to prevent hotlinking and bandwidth theft http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/ Me fail English? That's unpossible! Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:06:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: fiona http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-42526 fiona Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:56:00 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-42526 Hi, thanks for this article, it's just what I need. I just had an image hotlinked; thankfully the situation has been resolved, but I'd like to prevent it happening again, so I'll be trying your method. Hi, thanks for this article, it’s just what I need.

I just had an image hotlinked; thankfully the situation has been resolved, but I’d like to prevent it happening again, so I’ll be trying your method.

]]> By: Should you stop image hot-linking | Andrew Keir - Logo designer, web designer, graphic designer. http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-39500 Should you stop image hot-linking | Andrew Keir - Logo designer, web designer, graphic designer. Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:27:31 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-39500 [...] can find more information on preventing hotlinking here. Related [...] [...] can find more information on preventing hotlinking here. Related [...]

]]> By: George http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-19035 George Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:35:55 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-19035 At the same time of preventing Hotlinking, how do I also allow Google Images to index my pictures? At the same time of preventing Hotlinking, how do I also allow Google Images to index my pictures?

]]> By: swollenpickles http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-15508 swollenpickles Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:56:37 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-15508 <blockquote> i am having so much trouble with my site..i really appreciate the help you guys post for people like me..my site is constantly under ddos attack and my site is down all the time bc if its not ddos attack than its bandwith is gone…when i look in the logs i see ip addresses using 500mb, google 300mb…kindly guide me where i can start and learn how to do proper mod rewrite so i can stop these useless punks from destroying my site sincerly a friend who needs advice </blockquote> If you're site is constantly under DDOS attack then I'd suggest referring the problem on to your host provider. They should be able to help with that. In terms of bandwidth, is it due to images on your site appearing in the google image search? Can you tell if images are being hotlinked to from forums etc?

i am having so much trouble with my site..i really appreciate the help you guys post for people like me..my site is constantly under ddos attack and my site is down all the time bc if its not ddos attack than its bandwith is gone…when i look in the logs i see ip addresses using 500mb, google 300mb…kindly guide me where i can start and learn how to do proper mod rewrite so i can stop these useless punks from destroying my site
sincerly
a friend who needs advice

If you’re site is constantly under DDOS attack then I’d suggest referring the problem on to your host provider. They should be able to help with that.

In terms of bandwidth, is it due to images on your site appearing in the google image search? Can you tell if images are being hotlinked to from forums etc?

]]> By: want to be nerd like u http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-15503 want to be nerd like u Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:03:07 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-15503 i am having so much trouble with my site..i really appreciate the help you guys post for people like me..my site is constantly under ddos attack and my site is down all the time bc if its not ddos attack than its bandwith is gone...when i look in the logs i see ip addresses using 500mb, google 300mb...kindly guide me where i can start and learn how to do proper mod rewrite so i can stop these useless punks from destroying my site :( sincerly a friend who needs advice i am having so much trouble with my site..i really appreciate the help you guys post for people like me..my site is constantly under ddos attack and my site is down all the time bc if its not ddos attack than its bandwith is gone…when i look in the logs i see ip addresses using 500mb, google 300mb…kindly guide me where i can start and learn how to do proper mod rewrite so i can stop these useless punks from destroying my site :(

sincerly
a friend who needs advice

]]> By: News Notion » How to Prevent Hotlinking http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-15236 News Notion » How to Prevent Hotlinking Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:14:44 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-15236 [...] going on and for being so freakin’ awesome! Also thanks to Swollen Pickles’ post ‘How to Prevent Hotlinking and Bandwidth Theft‘ for the code I needed to stop this [...] [...] going on and for being so freakin’ awesome! Also thanks to Swollen Pickles’ post ‘How to Prevent Hotlinking and Bandwidth Theft‘ for the code I needed to stop this [...]

]]> By: swollenpickles http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-15080 swollenpickles Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:39:46 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-15080 <blockquote> <p><span name="KonaFilter">If you host your own images for other sites that code won’t help you. You will be causing your own site to lose images as well as any hotlinkers. </span></p> </blockquote> If you host images for other sites then you just need to add them to the exception list. I covered that off above, but here's the code again: <code>RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?yoursite\.com/ [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?yoursecondsite\.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/copthis.jpe [L]</code>

If you host your own images for other sites that code won’t help you. You will be causing your own site to lose images as well as any hotlinkers.

If you host images for other sites then you just need to add them to the exception list. I covered that off above, but here’s the code again:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?yoursite\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?yoursecondsite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/copthis.jpe [L]

]]> By: Laura http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-15078 Laura Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:49:40 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-15078 If you host your own images for other sites that code won't help you. You will be causing your own site to lose images as well as any hotlinkers. It is easier to just move your images. Every now and then change your image location from domain.com/images to domain.com/image and then back again in another few months. Just keep track of where you have put your images on other sites so you can change them there too. Of course, if it is a site you no longer use it doesn't really matter. If you host your own images for other sites that code won’t help you. You will be causing your own site to lose images as well as any hotlinkers. It is easier to just move your images. Every now and then change your image location from domain.com/images to domain.com/image and then back again in another few months. Just keep track of where you have put your images on other sites so you can change them there too. Of course, if it is a site you no longer use it doesn’t really matter.

]]> By: Orangeinks http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-15076 Orangeinks Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:05:39 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-15076 Darn I forgot the spam protection when I submitted my comment. Anyway, I found this post through afrogtokiss.net and I was just wondering what happens if I put an href to my images directing it to my homepage? Will the person who hotlinked my images also give me a link to my site? I was thinking that it will annoy the hell out of my readers. lol. Everytime they clicked my images, they will be redirected to my home page. It's just a question that popped out of my head after reading your article. Just curious. Thanks for the tip. :) Darn I forgot the spam protection when I submitted my comment. Anyway, I found this post through afrogtokiss.net and I was just wondering what happens if I put an href to my images directing it to my homepage? Will the person who hotlinked my images also give me a link to my site? I was thinking that it will annoy the hell out of my readers. lol. Everytime they clicked my images, they will be redirected to my home page. It’s just a question that popped out of my head after reading your article. Just curious. Thanks for the tip. :)

]]> By: Karen http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-15070 Karen Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:17:19 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/01/16/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-and-bandwidth-theft/#comment-15070 Thank you so much for the great article. I have written about it on my blog with a link back to this so I will have it if ever I need it. Thank you so much for the great article. I have written about it on my blog with a link back to this so I will have it if ever I need it.

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