Hotlinkers Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text I've noticed a while back that a good chunk of my bandwidth is going to a small number of people who are [hotlinking](http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html) to some of my photos. I can deal with people using some of my photos as backgrounds or hotlinking to thumbnail versions if they want to provide a link, but hotlinking to 800KB full-size image is pretty annoying. In a bout of procrastination I have edited my .htaccess to specifically to redirect requests from myspace.com to an [educational image](/etc/nohotlink.jpg), which I think I will keep permanently, since there are just too many myspaces people abusing this. I will also turn it on for Xanga for a few days. I am excluding the thumbnails, so that people can use those to link to images. If you want to know how it works, see the code below. Meanwhile, let me rehash this for the hotlinkers: * Learn about [hotlinking](http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html) and why it is bad. * If you want to use a photo of mine on your page, figure where to put it. And make sure to provide a link to where you got it. * If you want to link to a photo of mine to direct your friends to it, you can hotlink to a small thumbnail. The .htaccess code: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (myspace.com|xanga.com) [NC] RewriteRule [0-9].jpg /etc/nohotlink.jpg RewriteRule sized.jpg /etc/nohotlink.jpg I put this in the /albums directory where my photos are. Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Page Content Template Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Don't put anything here save preview cancel
