Hotlinking - Help me dominate someone
 

Some guy is hotlinking some of my images (but, I can't simply change the image...cause I'm using it on my sites as well).

How do I have a different image show or something? Something I add to .htaccess, right?

Get 4 or 5 linux/unix shells on a DS-3 or OC connection...then goto your command line ..at each shell type....

Ping -s 65000 -f sitename.com :thumbsup

Leave it on for a couple days

How's he hotlinking if you have htaccess?

Yes, you can have anything show up if you specify the domain/url it's coming from.

I think Ace-Ace is hotlinking his own image on another server and someone noticed this and started linking to that image.

No...this site here: http://www.securitysmarts.com/skull/

Top banner is mine. I also display that banner on the server it's on (dr-emu.com). I want the image shown there (http://www.dr-emu.com/images/468x80_cheerleader.gif) to show as something different when coming from his URL.

how much bandwidth is he burning?

Next to nothing...I still want to change the image though.

do this

1 - Find tha picture he is hotlinking (lets call it x.jpg)
2 - Find a picture of a big nakkid gay and save at x.jpg
3 - replace the pic of the gay, with the old pic you used, and rename the old picture to y.jpg , wich you will use on your own page now.
4 - That way he displys a bugass ugly gay on his site

Good except I'm using that image on 80 different URLs, and I'm in no mood to go change all of those...

If mod_rewrite is installed (assuming apache)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} http://his.domain.com
RewriteRule /* http://some.host/fuckyou.gif [R,L]

That would redirect anything from a specific referer (I think, havn't tested it or used mod_rewrite in a while).
More info at: (search for Blocked Inline Images)
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

Thanks a ton, mission accomplished...

http://www.securitysmarts.com/skull/

Heh, I saw it. Np.
Btw, where did you find that nasty image? Reminds me of the goatse.cx site.

ROFL !!!

fantastic!

goatse.cx site :)

:1orglaugh

Nice job!

I had some lowlife pud trying to hotlink one of my images as an avatar on some board. I saw it in my referrers and then fixed up my htaccess...so the guy now had this http://www.premierepussy.com/images/thief.gif as his avatar :321GFY

omg thats some FUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY shit

Ace-Ace,

Drop BossHawg a line.
He will kick the hotlinking bastard. Trust me ;)

Just emailed him, thanks.

I like to have my .htaccess file located in the root directory so that all images are protected throughout your server. Here is agreat .htaccess script, similiar to the one above, just witha few different whistles and bells

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([a-z0-9-]+\.)*somesite.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule /* http://www.yoursite.com [L,R]

A few things wrong with this:

Nothing that will stop it from working, but a few pointers:

a. the RewriteCond line should not look like that to save processing:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*somesite.com [NC]

b. a second RewriteCond should be added to allow direct type in traffic for .html files
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER !^$

c. this would allow direct type in traffic to like: site.com/file.html (usually ok and necessary for bookmarks)