blocking direct links

How do I block people from linging directly to my jpg and gif images????
Example: http://www.myserver.com/picture.gif
Is there a way to only have my html page display picture but no one can
direct link it by typing whole path???

Thanks,
Ed
eddie@eddie1.net

if you mean an anti-leech script i can help you, meaning, you have pictures
on yur website, but if somone takes the link to thoes pictures and puts them
on another site or a forum or somthing, it'll display a different picture of
yur choice, a picture saying not to leech or steel your bandwidth somthing
like that...

lemme know



----- Original Message -----
From: "Me" <me@right.here>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: blocking direct links


> How do I block people from linging directly to my jpg and gif images????
> Example: http://www.myserver.com/picture.gif
> Is there a way to only have my html page display picture but no one can
> direct link it by typing whole path???
>
> Thanks,
> Ed
> eddie@eddie1.net

Me wrote:
> How do I block people from linging directly to my jpg and gif images????
> Example: http://www.myserver.com/picture.gif
> Is there a way to only have my html page display picture but no one can
> direct link it by typing whole path???

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/1422.htm explains the most common
solution using mod_rewrite, as well as an alternate approach if
mod_rewrite is not available to you (assuming an Apache server, the
concept applies to other servers as well but the configuration
statements will be different).

Read the notes below the examples before you implement such image
blocking. One additional caveat: if your page is served through another
service, for example translated with Babelfish or served from Google's
cache, you will see a third party referrer also and therefore block
image access.

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Klaus Johannes Rusch
KlausRusch@atmedia.net
http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/