Posted: 12/7/2005 8:19:03 AM EDT
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I've noticed that I've got a pic on my website that is getting pulled frequently for listings at the following websites... www.uushop.net/bbs2/htm_data/6/0511/123609.html bbs.milchina.com/htm_data/6/0511/3205.html www.war-sky.com/forum/htm_data/36/0512/157850.html They all appear to be some chinese discussion board and it looks like they're linking to alot forum member's pics. Any ideas what this is? (I'm going to remove my pic) |
You can usually ban an IP from your server. Check your web hosting control panel. -d |
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running a webserver off linux? block the ip addresses from within IP tables my iptables contains this line, from an iptables the guy who set up my system used
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The problem is, we aren't talking about a particular IP. What is happening is someone is posting the picture on a forum (web page) and he sees many IPs requesting these images from his server when they look at that web page. There is no full proof way to stop this. The way to kinda stop this is to setup a webserver rule to ONLY allow certain referers. However, some browsers don't send this or scramble it up (privacy programs) and then legit users can not see the pictures either. I recently moved many pictures that were posted here on arfcom to another server. Well over a year later I still have people from arfcom pulling those files. I had to setup a rewrite rule to direct the browser to the new location. -Foxxz |
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Heres a taste of how to do referer allow/block Make a .htaccess file RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?uushop\.net/ [NC,OR RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(bbs\.)?milchina\.com/ [NC,OR RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?war-sky\.com/ [NC RewriteRule \.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ nohotlink.jpg [L] That will replace the image with "nohotlink.jpg" -Foxxz |
| Find someone that knows Chinese. Ask them to give the symbols for "I have a small penis." Replace the image with one containing those symbols and is approximately 400 pixels tall. Make sure it's something small in filesize, a 2-color GIF should work nicely and be very compact in terms of bandwidth. Then see if they keep leeching. If they do, you're not losing nearly as much anymore. |
