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protecting image from being transfer from server to server

Discussion in 'Content Management' started by News Updates, Mar 4, 2011.

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    I've a picture blog, someone is fetching my image from server to his server, via remote image fetching script etc; (eg; Upload Image from URL like script)

    how can I prevent this?
     
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    That's called hot linking. If you're using apache, an addition to .htaccess can stop that.
    Basically if a request has an HTTP referrer, you don't serve the image, or serve up an alternative image, such as your blog name and logo.
     
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    Im using .htaccess to prevent hotlinking and its working fine, but tell me does .htaccess prevent image fetching via upload scripts?
     
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