bandwidth protector script any good? to avoid hotlinking images?

[alohaha]

curious, ran across this, might be interesting .. anyone try it??

http://www.siteinteractive.com/bandwidth/

[happy11]

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|GIF|jpg|JPG)$ [F,L]

[rogerbo]

Now i'm asking my selfe why should i pay for a script when a little htaccess does the same ?

[alohaha]

appreciate..anyone else try this? does that rewrite work ok? other ideas?

[DOX]

Try this one. it's more advanced ;)

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourIPhere [NC]
RewriteRule [^/]+\.(exe|mpeg|mpg|avi|mp3|gif|jpg|JPG|GIF|MP3|AVI)$ - [F]
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/.+$ - [F]

[Breaker]

I use .htaccess for blocking hotlinkers and show them this gif.

http://www.starsuckers.net/hotlink.gif

:D

[alohaha]

roflmao .. hehe nice graphic :)

[intelliweb]

Make sure your host has mod_rewrite enabled in apache and .htaccess will work great as described by DOX or happy11