[tech] Referrer Checking for Hotlinking

[loki]

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 07:14:47PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
>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.

I was only refering to each ~/public-html folder having it's own (generated
on user add) .htaccess which would have the offered defaults. After that
users can alter it as much they like i.e. adding blog addresses to those allowed

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

However, this would not replace davyd's script which could keep an eye on
those that may abuse.

my 2c
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