Re: a site links to one of my jpg

"Denise" <dionyza@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You set a list of approved sites (your own & any others you'd like to
be able to link to you) in your .htaccess. If the site isn't on the
list, when the image link is clicked, it comes up on a webpage on your
site, not orphaned on a field of white. Works beautifully.

Wrong. Better: list sites that are *not* approved since some people block
the referer, and you still want them to show the right image. Quite some
sites make the mistake to show people which block their referer an image
with "This site is a bandwidth thief" on their *own* site, and talking
about their *own* picture.

See: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/01/11/

The A list apart article (http://alistapart.com/articles/hotlinking )
suggest the *wrong* way to handle this.

Also the mod rewrite stuff is very clumsy written:

..*jpg$|.*gif$|.*png$

is quite stupid for example (he probably wants: \.jpe?g$|\.gif$|\.png$ )


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