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The solution is really quite easy on Linux/Apache.

First, check out http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod....html#setenvif and the following entry for SetEnvIfNoCase to follow this solution.

You'll need the SetEnvIf module installed, which is usually the case. If you're running Apache 1.3.13 and later, you can add this to a ".htaccess" file at the top of the directory tree you wish to protect. Otherwise, you have to add it to the apache configuration file within a virtual host and/or directory directive.

The code is simply (replace "YourDomain.com" and "###.###.###.###" appropriately):

i've a php script to protect hotlink, it worked fine in my tests.
It's free but it needs optimizations.
link: http://www.brguy.com/ahls/

That's essentially exactly the same as using mod_rewrite.. Since the player doesn't pass a referrer, this won't help you.

Cheers,
Backov

very interesting thread, i´m also sitting here waiting for the perfect solution! :Graucho

Nope, my bad! Windows Media Player doesn't send the referer for WMV files, ever. It does follow the htaccess authorization requirements, so "*.wmv" files need to be within a members prorected directory to prevent hotlinking.

Make "\.(gif|jpe?g|mpe?g\avi\wmv)$" to read "\.(gif|jpe?g|mpe?g|avi)$". This prevents hotlinking of MPEG's and images at least.

hotlinkers are one big pain in the ass
If I ever get my hands on one of them they won't touch a keyboard again.
One day I had about 50mbit of hotlinking a whole day long.
One thing that took this down alot is something simple but it helped me alot....
For every series of galleries I had it like...
www.domain.com/movies001/movies/
www.domain.com/movies002/movies/
www.domain.com/movies003/movies/
www.domain.com/movies004/movies/

What the fuckers did was just put up gallery 001 up to lets say gallery 100
so they had like 500 movies hotlinked at once......
so from now on I name the /movies/ part different per gallery serrie so it's not that easy for them to roll em up

A friend of me is working with something that will set session ID's.
We'll test it soon and if it works out I'll post it
I tested the cookie script and it works but like lane said they can just iframe your site plus alot of tgp webmasters don't like it since quite some ppl have cookies disabled with IE6

Anyone testing a solution for this problem?
:(

Yes there are solutions out there.. just gotta know where to looks and yes, it does work with .htaccess.

So, has anyone found the solution other than renaming files?

There's actually a complex solution against hotlinking. But it's bound to the hosting solution i'm using as a customer for more than 4 months now, since they custom programmed it for me and only use it on their own hosting facility.

Contact me on icq : 146920758 for more info.

Michael

I heard Like Whoa has the same policy, they have a very advanced movie protection script that works 2 different ways depending on your surfers. There is protection enabled via Cookies, and there is another variation of that script. It securely serves movies in all ways. Left Click, Right Click, and Save Target As. From what I know they only offer it to their hosting customers but get in touch with them to find out more.

http://hosting.likewhoa.com