Comments on: Block hotlinkers but allow some sites remote access to images using .htaccess http://www.tomrafteryit.net/block-hotlinkers-but-allow-some-sites-remote-access-to-images-using-htaccess/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:47:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Raj http://www.tomrafteryit.net/block-hotlinkers-but-allow-some-sites-remote-access-to-images-using-htaccess/#comment-115390 Raj Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:54:58 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/views/block-hotlinkers-but-allow-some-sites-remote-access-to-images-using-htaccess/#comment-115390 First of all thank you for this article. i have 2 websites one for UK .co.uk and 2nd for USA .com. My .com website is located on root directory and .co.uk is located in .com sub domain like http://UK.USA.com and my all images, scripts are hosted at .com (root directory) for both .com and .co.uk domains. When ever i am calling images from sub domain for UK website its not giving me any error or if the same image hosted at root directly and i want to past that image at UK website its giving me an error at the bottom of IE "could not find a privacy policy for http://www.USA.com/button.gif. To view this site's privacy policy, contact the website directly" and if i would like to call any YAHOO image on my testing page its not giving me any type of error. can please guide me where is the error? regards First of all thank you for this article.

i have 2 websites one for UK .co.uk and 2nd for USA .com. My .com website is located on root directory and .co.uk is located in .com sub domain like http://UK.USA.com and my all images, scripts are hosted at .com (root directory) for both .com and .co.uk domains. When ever i am calling images from sub domain for UK website its not giving me any error or if the same image hosted at root directly and i want to past that image at UK website its giving me an error at the bottom of IE “could not find a privacy policy for http://www.USA.com/button.gif. To view this site’s privacy policy, contact the website directly” and if i would like to call any YAHOO image on my testing page its not giving me any type of error.

can please guide me where is the error?

regards

]]> By: Karl http://www.tomrafteryit.net/block-hotlinkers-but-allow-some-sites-remote-access-to-images-using-htaccess/#comment-104032 Karl Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:49:06 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/views/block-hotlinkers-but-allow-some-sites-remote-access-to-images-using-htaccess/#comment-104032 Tom I would just like to say thanks, I've been looking for a simple way to block access to a section of our site. Your clear writing skills are amazing, and I've read lots of sites in the last five days. Thanks very much, will update you when our services goes live. Tom I would just like to say thanks, I’ve been looking for a simple way to block access to a section of our site. Your clear writing skills are amazing, and I’ve read lots of sites in the last five days.

Thanks very much, will update you when our services goes live.

]]> By: Isaac Z. Schlueter http://www.tomrafteryit.net/block-hotlinkers-but-allow-some-sites-remote-access-to-images-using-htaccess/#comment-1437 Isaac Z. Schlueter Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:31:26 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/views/block-hotlinkers-but-allow-some-sites-remote-access-to-images-using-htaccess/#comment-1437 Whoops, the br didn't get in there. Should be this: <code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://[^./]*\.bloglines\.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://[^./]*\.talkr\.com [NC]</code> Whoops, the br didn’t get in there.
Should be this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://[^./]*\.bloglines\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://[^./]*\.talkr\.com [NC]

]]> By: Isaac Z. Schlueter http://www.tomrafteryit.net/block-hotlinkers-but-allow-some-sites-remote-access-to-images-using-htaccess/#comment-1436 Isaac Z. Schlueter Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:30:49 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/views/block-hotlinkers-but-allow-some-sites-remote-access-to-images-using-htaccess/#comment-1436 Thanks for providing this! :) You might want to also add the following, since these sites provide access to your content (via RSS) when they show the images: <code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://[^./]*\.bloglines\.com [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://[^./]*\.talkr\.com [NC]</code> Also, I prefer to use <code>[^./]*</code> ("not a dot or a slash 0 or more times") instead of <code>(www\.)?</code>, since that will also subdomains outside of www. Thanks for providing this! :)

You might want to also add the following, since these sites provide access to your content (via RSS) when they show the images:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://[^./]*\.bloglines\.com [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://[^./]*\.talkr\.com [NC]

Also, I prefer to use [^./]* (”not a dot or a slash 0 or more times”) instead of (www\.)?, since that will also subdomains outside of http://www.

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