July 13, 2004
Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention
by Thomas Scott
Most web professionals are all too aware of the problems caused by hotlinkers. Leechers. Bandwidth thieves. People who use images hosted on your web server on their own pages. With PHP and mod_rewrite, you can disallow embedding and allow linking while automatically creating gallery pages for those direct linkers.
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