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tmhall · May 14th, 2005, 01:23 PM

I opened a ticket about .htaccess not working to prevent people from hotlinking to images in our gallery, and I thought it was resolved. As it turns out I don't think the problem was with the .htaccess file not working, but with the fact that it only works when the viewer's browser sends http referer headers - and some browsers don't always send those headers.*

So anyway... is there a way to provide tighter restrictions on the images in the gallery, maybe through the forum permissions system? Or could there be?

* It seems that Firefox, for example, has a lot of referer bugs. It doesn't always send those headers when it should, and in addition they make it very easy for users to manually disable them through a config setting.

May 14th, 2005, 01:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
tmhall Member Verified Customer Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 55	Hotlinking and .htaccess I opened a ticket about .htaccess not working to prevent people from hotlinking to images in our gallery, and I thought it was resolved. As it turns out I don't think the problem was with the .htaccess file not working, but with the fact that it only works when the viewer's browser sends http referer headers - and some browsers don't always send those headers.* So anyway... is there a way to provide tighter restrictions on the images in the gallery, maybe through the forum permissions system? Or could there be? * It seems that Firefox, for example, has a lot of referer bugs. It doesn't always send those headers when it should, and in addition they make it very easy for users to manually disable them through a config setting.