Bandwidth theft

ehm · February 4th, 2005, 04:10 PM

[quote]Bandwidth theft is always a need for mod rewrite so I doubt you will see any security measure more effective than that.

we provide an example to protect your images here

http://www.photopost.com/tipsphp.html

Quote:

Bandwidth theft is always a need for mod rewrite so I doubt you will see any security measure more effective than that.

I install your protect .htaccess solution, but imediatly the load of all pictures are extremlilly slow on my server.
I removed the .htaccess and the speed went back to normal again.
I re-install the .htaccess and again the load speed is slow.
There is any co-relation?

Chuck S · February 4th, 2005, 05:38 PM

I use something like this and I have no issues with speed

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://reeftalk.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://reeftalk.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.reeftalk.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.reeftalk.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(mpg|mpeg|mov|wav|mp3|avi|rm|ram|qt|ra|zip|aiff|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

HobbyTalk · February 4th, 2005, 09:46 PM

Here is what I use

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

This feeds a "visit mydomain.com for more info" image to any site that tries to display an image on their site

ehm · February 4th, 2005, 10:08 PM

That one works much better HobbyTalk.
THere is no difference on speed when loading pages on my site now.
Now cames the stupid question : how can I test it to see if it's working???

Chuck S · February 5th, 2005, 09:13 AM

Mine and Hobbies is the same except his serves up an image which adds to bandwidth and mine doesnt LOL

Although I will add those images are usually negligible on size although it does add up

ehm · February 5th, 2005, 12:28 PM

So any one can tell me how can I test it to see if it works?
Sorry for my ignorance. The first time I eard about Bandwidth theft was here, so not sure on how to 'see' it.

Chuck S · February 5th, 2005, 12:47 PM

simply try and post a link on some other site to one of your photos

HobbyTalk · February 5th, 2005, 10:49 PM

The image it sends is only 0.5K... I'll give that up for the advertisement... All it says is "more info at mydomain.com"

ehm · February 5th, 2005, 10:57 PM

So, any one can tell me how to try it and see if it's working?

Chuck S · February 5th, 2005, 11:28 PM

I did above

ehm · February 6th, 2005, 02:52 AM

I was afraid that the test was like that...
It's not working here:
This is the link who is supose to be stealing the image from my site:
http://www.imigrar.com/testephoto.htm

and this is the .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?viajareua\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|js|zip|exe)$ http://www.viajareua.com/images/motomen.gif [R,NC]

any ideas?

Chuck S · February 6th, 2005, 07:38 AM

How is it not working??

Your trying to link this picture

http://www.viajareua.com/photopost/d...K12LT_BY-2.jpg

Yet your serving them this picture to display

http://www.viajareua.com/images/motomen.gif

I most certainly see the motomen.gif when viewing that link

HobbyTalk · February 6th, 2005, 05:06 PM

If he is seeing the original image then most likely his browser or firewall is not returning a referer... which a number of browsers and firewalls don't do. If you remove

rewritecond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

and get a red X instead of an image then that is the case. There is nothing you can do to prevent this from happening.

ehm · February 6th, 2005, 05:53 PM

Ok. I read Omegatron and Hobby talk responses.
I wil try tomorrow, Sunday, from a different location and see what are the results.

Guys : I'm not crazing... I'm seing the PHotoPost picture and not the Motoman here at my browsers (IE and Firefox)

Thank you so far and Monday I will post the resutls.