Comments on: Thief! Stop hot-linking my image!

By: Babaji M P

Babaji M P — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:57:22 +0000

Using a replacement image is working.

But … ,

The replacement images changes to the dimension of the copied image !

For eg.,

The original image is http://mysite.com/image.jpg of dimension 800×900
replacement image is http://hosted.com/image.jpg of dimension 200×300

Now, the problem here is the replacement image is stretched to 800×900,
making it hard to see the warning on the replacement image.

Any idea how to make the replacement image to show specific dimension via .htaccess ?

Thank You.
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By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:00:45 +0000

I remember that you need to add a code to make sure your RSS feed reader to see the image (or else they’ll see the blocked/porn image!!!). I remember having a problem to make it work for email subcribers though, so I took this code out

My hosting gives unlimited bandwidth anyway

By: JAB_au

JAB_au — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:58:12 +0000

Seriously goatse or tubgirl is enough to gross them out. It usually educates them well especially if they are hot-linking on a forum and they get banned. JAB_au´s last blog post..Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 Released

By: cyana

cyana — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:35:03 +0000

Micheal, Thanks a lot for those htaccess codes, it is working fine, except that for some reason, they are not getting the image from my path ! but i have a question regarding my feedburner subscribers - are they gonna still received my newsletter properly ? Because if they dont then, it is kind of annoying.. Maybe there is other solution to fight against hotlinks ? cyana´s last blog post..Hotel Particulier : Le Charme Parisien

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:09:58 +0000

Hm sorry, I don’t know the answer with hard images linked into emails. Although I remember that I took out hotlinking protection on this blog because my email subscribers are getting the blocked images on their emails So I guess the htaccess actually works for image hardlinking on emails.