okay, so sometimes when you try to hot- link picsture files of a certain web page to another forums and such,
you see "you have attempt to use pictures belong to..." or "access denied..." signs instead of the pics you hot- linked.

carandmodel.com or imagestation.com would be a good example,
like so-



my question is, how do you do that?
say my web page is seung.net,
i want my pics to do the same thing when people try to hot- link pics from my web page.

can anyone help me?

 

eh, if a pic of "courtney day" comes out,
please ignore... haha...

but, you guys know what i mean, by "access denied" pics, right?
pics from geocities or tripod would be a very good example, too.

 

Yeah this is interesting to me, I want to put a message in photos that will go on my site as well. Thanks in advance.

 

you have to have some server-side scripting/content handling to prevent ppl from viewing your image w/o a local referer. yes, referer with three r's, not four.

I do a lot of content security for my work. If you have scripting available (like php,perl,etc) gimmie a holler.

 

You run your own web server?

If you have Apache, there are modifications you can do the httpd.conf file to check that your website is the referer to allow images to be downloaded. If not, you can return a 403 (Forbidden) or better yet, substitute your own image.

Someone once used one of my images for their avatar on another board. I substituted it with a picture of the goatse.cx guy, and he was booted off the board faster than you can say "browneye".

 

the conf thing will work against most ppl...but referers can be spoofed. Currently I have implemented a OTP scheme to protect my content. very sneaky.

 

http://support.mypagesonline.com/hot_linking.php

 

mod_rewrite works for most purposes, but still, it's very easy to spoof a referer. like i could setup a script on my server called foo.jpg, and it spoofs the referer to your REAL foo.jpg and passes it along to the person surfing my site.

n shit.