How To Block Hotlinkers
variations that exist on the specific regular expressions that can be written, they all accomplish the same thing. One can either throw the client a “forbidden” which means that the image is not there or the client gets to be redirected to another image which is usually something suitably offensive. Using the Rewrite Rule to forbid display of image is a simple rule which effectively blocks the display on remote sites. Redirecting requests for images from remote web pages to an image of choice on one’s website is taking this rule a step further. A good example of this is an image which says “This image is stolen”. A person who tries to link directly to the original images of a site is inadvertently serving the redirected image to his/her pages.
Redirecting a browser from one file type to another is essentially not a good idea. The best approach is to make a
