Hotlink Bug

[!!blue]

Hi all,

 

I found the answer to a bug I've been having on my site; sometimes the gif images do not appear on my site and it's because IE thinks the Hotlink feature is a cookie and blocks the images.

 

See the link for the dialog box I get in IE, and because of this the images don't load. Mad!!!

 

http://zoblue.com/image.htm

 

Please let me know what I can do to avoid this error, so people can view the images!!! It's only been happening on the intro page http://zoblue.com, as some of you may remember I've posted this question before.

 

thanks,

!!blue

[Twisted]

I can't see it either but I have been having problems seeing certain images recently expecially images sized at 88x31. I am trying to fix my issue also

[Head Guru]

There are several known bugs in the cPanel hotlinking protection.

 

Here are some that I am aware of.

 

when you go to your url, make sure you have / at the end

 

domain.com is not the same as domain.com/ when it comes to hotlink protection

 

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Add the following to an .htaccess file and place it in Document Root for the account in question.

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://your_domain.com/.*$ [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.your_domain.com/.*$ [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.trusted.com/.*$ [NC]

RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|)$ - [F,L]

 

The 'RewriteRule' is where you include the same file extension of the files to be protected.

 

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[TCH-JimE]

Hi,

 

Check here for hopefully a explination of how to get around it:

 

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...8&hl=hotlinking

 

Jim

[!!blue]

Thanks! I will try the above code and when I'll view my site from various IE browsers at school again on Wednesday.

 

Thanks again ,

!!blue