[tech] Referrer Checking for Hotlinking

[Cameron Patrick]

loki wrote:

> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 05:07:52PM +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> >As an idea to try and cut down our traffic bill some more (or web
> >backtraffic is ~1/11th of our outbound traffic) I knocked up a script to
> >analyse our referrers to look for hotlinking.
> 
> Could you have a default .htaccess with something like the attached?

I regularly "hotlink" images from my UCC web space in my blog (hosted on
a different domain), and wouldn't like to see the ability to do that
vanish.

That said, if members were warned about it well beforehand, and could
override it where necessary, it's not a bad policy.

Cameron