Blocking Content by Referer
Friday, October 10. 2008
As I already wrote I am tired of people that use my images on their sites and consuming my bandwidth. Don't get me wrong. I always appreciate links to my site and I am pleased if you find something useful. What I don't like however is that someone refers to high resolution images as background images for his site that are meant as desktop wallpapers.
A colleague gave me the hint to block this sites by the referer through .htaccess files in the respective directories. And this works great for me:
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