Thanx! This is an excellent solution! Merlin
"Daniel Kushner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Merlin, > > What you are describing is named Hot Linking. A quick search on Google gave me this: > http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml > > > Regards, > Daniel Kushner > ____________________________________________________ > Need PHP Training? http://www.nyphp.org/training.php > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: merlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:18 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [PHP] Preventing the "hijacking" of pictures > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > I recently discovered the reason why the traffic is rising so high on my > > server. Some people are "stealing" bandwidth. They include > > the link of an image into a forum posting. Now everytime somebody reads this > > threat on the other site this image is > > served by my server!! No one cares about one image, but they become > > dramaticly a lot! > > > > Is there a reason how to find out that the image is not include into my html > > code, but into the other site code? > > > > A great idea would be showing a kind of a watermark on this images if they > > are included inside other websites. > > > > $_SERVER[HTTP_REFERRER] does not help. But there might be another method I > > do not know of. > > > > Thank you for any help and hints on this topic! > > > > Merlin > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
