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Topic: images....
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: images....
Date Posted: 03 September 2003 at 1:47pm
| Any way to stop images showing unless they are called from the server they reside on? |
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Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 03 September 2003 at 2:35pm
With ton's of code, yes.  ------------- Gone.. |
Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 03 September 2003 at 2:45pm
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http://www.bestfx.com/static/tutorials/servers/htaccess11.phtml - http://www.bestfx.com/static/tutorials/servers/htaccess11.phtml http://www.arsresources.com/articles/hotlinking-images-movies.shtml - http://www.arsresources.com/articles/hotlinking-images-movies.shtml |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 03 September 2003 at 6:57pm
| thanks so much! |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 03 September 2003 at 7:46pm
| Im not allowed access to .htaccess, is it possible to do it with global.asa? |
Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 03 September 2003 at 8:24pm
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More ideas http://www.crystaltech.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5742&FORUM_ID=1&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=Bandwidth+Leaching&Forum_Title=General+Discussion+Forum - http://www.crystaltech.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5742&FORUM_ID=1&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=Bandwidth+Leaching&Forum_Title=General+Discussion+Forum i am using the Leech Blocker on my dedicated server.. works pretty well ------------- Contribute to the working anarchy we fondly call the Internet |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 12:57am
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Put the images outside of your web root space and use the physical path within asp scripts to reference them. Anyone who tries to reference them outside of one of your asp scripts will get a 404. ------------- 
Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |
Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 6:25am
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that will not work because that physical path to an image doesn't exist on anyone elses computer.. anyone surfing the site NOT on the server itself will not see the images all html does is tell the client's browser "where" to go for the image, not provide the image itself..... so if at my morningz.com site i had: that's telling your browser where to go, and it has zero idea what that is ------------- Contribute to the working anarchy we fondly call the Internet |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:22am
| Please excuse my ignorance... but why would people want to steal images from someone? I could see if it was a porn server, because that's a nasty tough business, but if you're not doing porn, I don't know why... Just curious really. |
Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:24am
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You can download the image to a temp directory, wich is in the app, and when you unload, delete it. ------------- Gone.. |
Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:38am
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you think porn sites are the only sites out there who want to protect intellicual property such as, yes images?? i know i my site there's about 300 articles and "how-to"-s all with images showing what to do.... and i sure in hell don't like it when someone points out that some other site pawns that image off as "theirs".. i spent my time and my effort to take that image to show what I am doing, i'd like to keep it "mine"....... ------------- Contribute to the working anarchy we fondly call the Internet |
Bluefrog wrote:Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:47am
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Porn isn't exactly the classiest stuff around, so I'd expect it there. But for something like what you've mentioned, I would expect people to have a bit more decency. Is it really a problem? I mean, do people really leech like that? |
Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:57am
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people are, to quote Michal Bolton in the movie "Office Space": I couldn't tell you how many sites over the years i have seen come onto my site, do a "View Source", paste it somewhere on their site, then pass it off as theirs...... ------------- Contribute to the working anarchy we fondly call the Internet |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 9:09am
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That's why you need to do it by using an asp script to render the image on the page. <%=mysite.com/imageretriever.asp?id=whatever.jpg%> imagereriever.asp would be a proxy server - similar to Leech Blocker. Images could be either outside of the root space, or within a directory that has script only access. HTTP_REFERRER's not within mysite.com wouldn't be served. Other way to do it is to have the links point to an image in a non-existant directory, and put proxyserver code within the 404 page.
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Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 10:55am
| I do it because bandwith costs money, and people are starting to use images they uploaded to my server as signaure images in other forums |
Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 2:46pm
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dpyers, how do you exactly configure the imageretriever.asp(x)? ------------- Gone.. |
Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 04 September 2003 at 2:49pm
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Nono, wait. The image is still stored on the client's pc. So the image can be saved by using the browser. You can, kinda like, avoid this, by simply adding <img ... OnContextMenu="javascript: return false;"> to a picture or the body. That would make it alot harder, even better it is, to load the page in a frame, wich has the ContextMenu=False wich leads to a page with a ContextMenu=False, where the image can't be right clicked. Not waterproof, but it works for me ------------- Gone.. |
Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 07 September 2003 at 3:42pm
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This might help: Now the picture will not be stored in the cache. ------------- Gone.. |