RE: [cobalt-users] OT? How to stop image and file leeching?

["Wayne Sagar" <shortfork@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Here are some examples:

Michael,

Looked at all (most) of the script ways round it and finally found something 
on apache.org (I'm tired, I think that's where it was)

an .htaccess file in the domain with this in it did the trick.

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "domain.com" local_ref=1
<FilesMatch ".(exe|gif|jpg)">
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from env=local_ref
</FilesMatch>

note: above took massaging from the example I had. They had full path 
http:// url with a ^ in front of it. That did not work and locked all access 
to the above files. As shown, it worked.

Now if you try to access any of those three file extensions from a domain 
outside the actual domain you get a forbidden page returned.

It completely stops the direct use of images off your server by another 
server. It also (unfortunately) in this case, stops some of what the client 
would *like* to see. Screenshots of his product posted here and there on 
message boards.

Well see how this floats, it works and stopped that part of the warez theft 
from him (me also as I have the server)

WS

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