Comments on: Using .htaccess to Prevent Bandwidth Theft

By: Cheap phentermine.

Cheap phentermine. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:43:20 +0000

Cheap phentermine….

Cheap phentermine by phone. Cheap phentermine. Phentermine cheap. Cheap phentermine pay cash on delivery. Cheap phentermine cod. Cheap phentermine diet pill….

By: CJB

CJB — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:48:36 +0000

Yet another reason I enjoy working on Apache servers. No .htaccess in ISS/Windows environments.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:30:21 +0000

I’ve never tried it, but my gut tells me you have to escape the extra dot like:
)?csskarma\.co\.uk/

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:29:05 +0000

it will prevent people from displaying images that are hosted on your domain, but not just being linked to. You can still link to them in tweets and whatnot.

You can also turn off the rewrite condition in that folder so those images and be freely distributed.

Or you can remove an image type from that last line, like “png”, that should open up png linking, but still block all the others

By: Matthew V

Matthew V — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:24:40 +0000

if you were going for a .co.uk TLD woud you put

)?csskarma\.co\.uk/
or
)?csskarma\.co.uk/

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:22:53 +0000

I suppose my question is then: On my own personal website, I have a folder that I use for hosting images that I post around the web (in other blogs that I write in, or just to host an image so I can link to it in tweets or whatnot).
So this technique described above would prevent me from doing this, yes?
I suppose, until my bandwidth is seriously compromised by people directly linking my images (it happens a bit now), I’ll just let it slide.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:00:34 +0000

Sure thing, I’ll update the post

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:51:54 +0000

Can you explain a little bit about what those rules are doing? I use htaccess files on most of my sites just to make sure site.com and http://www.site.com and site.net and all that all go where I want them. But I’ve never used it with images like this.