RE: [PHP] Preventing the "hijacking" of pictures

Hi Merlin, What you are describing is named Hot Linking. A quick search on Google gave me this: http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml Regards, Daniel Kushner ____________________________________________________ Need PHP Training? http://www.nyphp.org/training.php > -----Original Message----- > From: merlin [mailto:news.letters@gmx.de] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:18 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Preventing the "hijacking" of pictures > > > Hi there, > > I recently discovered the reason why the traffic is rising so high on my > server. Some people are "stealing" bandwidth. They include > the link of an image into a forum posting. Now everytime somebody reads this > threat on the other site this image is > served by my server!! No one cares about one image, but they become > dramaticly a lot! > > Is there a reason how to find out that the image is not include into my html > code, but into the other site code? > > A great idea would be showing a kind of a watermark on this images if they > are included inside other websites. > > $_SERVER[HTTP_REFERRER] does not help. But there might be another method I > do not know of. > > Thank you for any help and hints on this topic! > > Merlin > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php