Comments on: Anti-Hotlink Robots: ACTIVATED http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/ Adult Erotic Spanking At Its Best Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:11:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SpankBoss http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58888 SpankBoss Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:37:06 +0000 http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58888 Adele, you're welcome! There's a lot of anti-hotlinking info out there, but most of it is contradictory, confusing, or just wrong. When I found that page I figured I was done looking. ;-) Adele, you’re welcome! There’s a lot of anti-hotlinking info out there, but most of it is contradictory, confusing, or just wrong. When I found that page I figured I was done looking. ;-)

]]> By: Adele Haze http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58886 Adele Haze Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:21:20 +0000 http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58886 Thanks for the link to the tech page; it's reallllly useful. (I've got just enough geek-fu to follow the instructions, but not nearly enough to understand them. Ah well.) Thanks for the link to the tech page; it’s reallllly useful. (I’ve got just enough geek-fu to follow the instructions, but not nearly enough to understand them. Ah well.)

]]> By: SpankBoss http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58858 SpankBoss Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:49:31 +0000 http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58858 It's not quite that simple, though you are broadly correct. There are various kinds of site-leeching robots and other tools for grabbing and sharing a site's pictures without loading its html pages; some of those hostile softwares pretend to be a browser when requesting pics, and can benefit from the blank referrer "hole". In effect they are non-standard "browsers" that browse only the images. But, again, I'll worry about that threat if it gets big enough to be a problem; today's problem I could solve without shooting that bullet. It’s not quite that simple, though you are broadly correct. There are various kinds of site-leeching robots and other tools for grabbing and sharing a site’s pictures without loading its html pages; some of those hostile softwares pretend to be a browser when requesting pics, and can benefit from the blank referrer “hole”. In effect they are non-standard “browsers” that browse only the images. But, again, I’ll worry about that threat if it gets big enough to be a problem; today’s problem I could solve without shooting that bullet.

]]> By: Bob http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58853 Bob Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:09:34 +0000 http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58853 "Of course a permissive approach to blank referrer headers does open a window for the determined hotlinker" Not really. The referer header is a browser setting. The person doing the hotlinking has no control over it. “Of course a permissive approach to blank referrer headers does open a window for the determined hotlinker”

Not really. The referer header is a browser setting. The person doing the hotlinking has no control over it.

]]> By: SpankBoss http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58850 SpankBoss Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:58:07 +0000 http://www.spankingblog.com/2008/08/30/anti-hotlink-robots-activated/#comment-58850 Bob, you're welcome. I've put a lot of effort into researching this over the years, and I've never found a better (or better explained!) approach than you'll find at the Perishable Press link. Of course a permissive approach to blank referrer headers does open a window for the determined hotlinker, but that's not my worry or my problem; my problem is the vast army of casual bandwidth thieves who know enough to hotlink but not enough to circumvent. Bob, you’re welcome. I’ve put a lot of effort into researching this over the years, and I’ve never found a better (or better explained!) approach than you’ll find at the Perishable Press link.

Of course a permissive approach to blank referrer headers does open a window for the determined hotlinker, but that’s not my worry or my problem; my problem is the vast army of casual bandwidth thieves who know enough to hotlink but not enough to circumvent.

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