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Stopping hotlinking on windows

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  • 13-08-2006 10:55pm
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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,923 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I know you can on Apache but is it possible to do this on shared windows hosting?


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    kbannon wrote:
    I know you can on Apache but is it possible to do this on shared windows hosting?

    You mean you want people to get to a page from a specified location, or host rather than directly from an external site?

    If so, you can do this using the Server Variables collection - Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER") (note the misspelling) will give you the referring URL, including the hostname.


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,923 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I want to stop people using pics that are hosted on my site, on other sites. I want to save my bandwidth.


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    kbannon wrote:
    I want to stop people using pics that are hosted on my site, on other sites. I want to save my bandwidth.

    Sorry - when I saw "windows", I thought you meant browser windows, not the platform.

    Came across this script based solution, but have no ideas of what's involved.
    http://evolvedcode.net/content/code_antihotlink/

    Failing that, ask your hosting company - it may suit them just as much to configure IIS.


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,923 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    nice one. I'll look at that tomorrow.


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    Serbian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭Serbian


    You could also try using ISAPI Rewrite which is essentially mod_rewrite for Windows. If it's a dedicated server I would recommend purchasing the module, otherwise just use the free one. They also have a program specifically written to prevent hotlinking but I'm pretty sure you can do it with the ISAPI Rewrite extension by itself.


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