Check it out, htacess hotlinked image redirect. :)

[thecoalman]

http://americainhistoryx.darkbb.com/index.forum


I should have replaced with a fat naked chick..... Just wish they had used the image they were hotlinking too as a background on the forum itself. That would ahve been fun because I could have made it the same color as the text.... :P

[shelbyGT]

Um... so what did you change? I take it they were linking to a pic on your site. I'm missing something, though.

[Supreme2k]

What a horrible, horrible, horrible site.

He couldn't even get a legit pic of AHX. Used a damn custom Divx cover.

Thems for printing, sonny.

Reminds me of the parents of my daughter's classmate. They made a collage of pics for her "All about me" project, and they all had "property of so-and-so.com" watermarked across each pic.

[Faustus]

Wait what am I suppose to be seeing? I'm confused.

Either way ht redirects have been around a long while, thats why you never remotely link to anything on somethingawful.com

[thecoalman]

The background pic, like I said I wish they had used it for the forum, then I really could of had some fun. probably not as visible if your running a low display resolution. It's very visible at 1152x

The original image they were linking too was quite large, they chewed up quite bit 0f bandwidth within a few days so that was the final straw for any hotlinking as far as I'm concerned.

I get many referrers from myspace, xanga etc. Screw them, I'm still considering the fat naked chick....

[shelbyGT]

Ahhh. I just looked again and now it's the girl eating cake. Before it was just some crappy gif that had some url in neon letters.

[thecoalman]

Before it was just some crappy gif that had some url in neon letters.

That was my crappy gif with my URL..... The neon lights were on purpose of course.... I can put anything I want there, at least until they change the source code.

Here's another one: http://www.xanga.com/Under_False_Pretences?nextdate=10%2f24%2f2005+22%3a26%3a10.917&direction=n

Go about half way down, best part is the heading they used.

[shelbyGT]

haha "here are some random pics I like" hahaha.

What was it originally?

[thecoalman]

[Noahtuck]

http://americainhistoryx.darkbb.com/index.forum


I should have replaced with a fat naked chick.....

A few years back, wow.. like 6
I had some guy use the link to my server for the photos i had on e-bay, i did not know it, then i found one person using it and the bandwidth was going through the roof, so i made a photo that said they were ripoff's and if they wanted truely case fresh items to buy them from "inserted my ebay username" named it the same as the photo's they were linking to, uploaded it to my server, and all of a sudden i got a ton of e-mails from all diff. people who were using MY PHOTO on MY SERVER!!!!!!!! the original guy had told someone else they could just link to the photo and it spread to a bunch of people!!!
And when this photo popped up on all their auctions they were pissed!!
And i just said oh well, sucks to be you, it's bad enough to steal my photos, but you can F'n host them yourself!!!!!! 8)

[thecoalman]

That's not a replaced file though, if you view the source you'll see it points to the original. I used htacces to replace it, essentially the browser requests the file from my server. The referrer though is that site, so it sends out the different image. If anyone is interested here's the code. Place this in any directory, you'll need a unix/apache server....

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*jpg$|.*gif$|.*png$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !coaldelivery\.com [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !nepadigital\.com [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !videohelp\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !40lbhead\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !fireplacegallery\.net [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !yahoo\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !google\. [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !search\?q=cache [NC]

RewriteRule (.*) /replace.jpg

Replace the site URL's with sites you want to be able to hotlink to your images, the first is important. You have to list your own or the replaced image will show up on your own pages. The last two if you want your images to be indexed by Google. I do because I get many visitors from their image search.

The last is the location of the file that will be sent out as the replacement, in this case it would be www.yoursite.com/replace.jpg

Copy to notepad and save as .htaccess or htaccess.txt* if windows won't allow you to save as .htaccess. Remember that this will affect whatever folder you upload this too and any subfolders it contains. You can't place this in www.yoursite.com/ because the replace.jpg is located there so it won't send out the image. You could put replace.jpg in it's own folder and create a htaccess file for that folder that will aloow for hotlinking if you have images in the root you want to protect.

*(rename .htaccess once you upload)

There's variations on the above code... do a google search.

[shelbyGT]

Nifty code there. what, you don't want msn search on your site? hah

[Heywould3]

lol i see you changed the pic to a fat chick eating cake.. awsome.. looks like a bjm pic however lol..

it is messed up when people hotlike like that.. its bad when they take the pic off site and then use it.. but atleast your BW isnt hurt.. if he woulda grabed the pic you prolly wouldnt have ever known.

oh well

[lordsmurf]

Most people I know insert goatse or tubgirl images for hotlinkers. A friend did that a while back for a guy selling stuff on eBay, and the user got his auctions taken down, and I think he was suspended too.

[thecoalman]

Nifty code there. what, you don't want msn search on your site? hah

Anything will still index the site, it's the image indexes that you need that for. I don't get very many referrals from MSN iamge search. Guess I should add it.