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alan-l · 06-06-2006, 02:09 AM

So one of my servers is getting 23% of its traffic coming from Yahoo. That means around 5000 uniques a day. Great? Nope. Traffic comes from Yahoo Video, so it's 100% wasted traffic and free porn for surfers.

Now I came to this idea. AFAIK, you can't do a referrer based redirect via .htaccess redirecting to anything else than an image. This means no html. But what if you place a file parsing directive? Something like

Code:

RemoveHandler .mpg .wmv
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

or whatever. Is it possible? If so, is it possible to parse files this way *ONLY* when coming from some specific referrer like Yahoo? If so, how?

Assuming this can't be done, do you know of any solution to this that don't imply to block Yahoo? I mean, keeping the traffic but instead of serving the videos, just send the surfer to a page?

06-06-2006, 02:09 AM
alan-l Confirmed User Join Date: May 2003 Location: look behind you Posts: 2,477	how to do this? re: htaccess So one of my servers is getting 23% of its traffic coming from Yahoo. That means around 5000 uniques a day. Great? Nope. Traffic comes from Yahoo Video, so it's 100% wasted traffic and free porn for surfers. Now I came to this idea. AFAIK, you can't do a referrer based redirect via .htaccess redirecting to anything else than an image. This means no html. But what if you place a file parsing directive? Something like Code: RemoveHandler .mpg .wmv AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html or whatever. Is it possible? If so, is it possible to parse files this way ONLY when coming from some specific referrer like Yahoo? If so, how? Assuming this can't be done, do you know of any solution to this that don't imply to block Yahoo? I mean, keeping the traffic but instead of serving the videos, just send the surfer to a page?