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Consuela - May 07, 2005 10:17:21 am PDT #2776 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Believe me, the hotlinking will stop forthwith.

§ ita § - May 07, 2005 10:19:29 am PDT #2777 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Welcome to the world of fuckos and .htaccess. I'm not good enough to get all tutorial on you, but basically, you drop a file in your image directory that can deny or grant access to the files there to whatever hosts you wish. And it can also swap images. So, when someone tries to grab images from my provocateuse sites, I hand them a 2400x267 gif that's only 5K. Messes up the screens they're dropping it on, doesn't cost me as much bandwidth as the picture they were looking for.

Sometimes I'd drop people an e-mail about it, but it rarely worked.

There are sites that throw up something pornographic or disgusting as a discouraging tactic.

Google lists of hotlink prevention tutorials.

Allyson - May 07, 2005 11:24:09 am PDT #2778 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I think I shall do that, ita, thanks.

But first, I must shame.

[link]

DCJensen - May 07, 2005 11:54:44 am PDT #2779 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Hee. Hee. Hee.

Consuela - May 07, 2005 12:07:47 pm PDT #2780 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

heee!

DCJensen - May 07, 2005 2:06:45 pm PDT #2781 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Anyone else having Google connection problems?

Firefox can't find the main site, nor gmail.google.com, so far.

Jessica - May 07, 2005 2:10:24 pm PDT #2782 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Gmail itself seems to be doing okay, but my Gmail notifier keeps losing the connection.

DCJensen - May 07, 2005 2:19:17 pm PDT #2783 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

It says gmail.google.com cannot be found for me.

§ ita § - May 07, 2005 2:20:30 pm PDT #2784 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The magic is, Allyson, with my method, you can shame, and you don't have to rename any of your images. What I've done is say "You want one of the images from this directory? Have this honking huge thing instead." I don't need to check referrer logs and discover that wet David Beckham is the new most popular thing. Everyone gets the 2000 wide image by default.

Everyone but me.

§ ita § - May 07, 2005 4:30:02 pm PDT #2785 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Allyson, something like this, saved in an .htaccess file in your image directory:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*.)?emahollywood.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(jpg|jpeg|gif)$ [link] [R,NC]

should do the job.

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