Re: Preventing the "hijacking" of pictures

on 2/27/03 10:18 AM, merlin at news.letters@gmx.de wrote: > 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! There is a kewl little php solution called LinkLok that may do what you need. It encrypts the image tag so it will only work on your pages. Search for it in Hotscripts.com HTH -- Mike Yrabedra President 323, Inc. Home of The MacDock and The MacSurfshop [http://macdock.com] : [http://macsurfshop.com] VOICE: 770.382.1195 iChat/AIM: ichatmacdock _______________________________________________________________________ "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men." ~Colossians 3:23 <{{{>< --