[Keyboard Cowboy]

I was having a word with the guy that host a our company's website. And it turns out that there is quite a few *******s (I could think of worse words, but I will not post them) that are hot linking the pictures of the products that I sell for their website.

Now this has not cost me any thing extra (yet), but I do which to put a stop to people hot linking pictures that are on my site.

How do I go about doing that?

[C.Ingram]

Here is a thread my web host started regarding the matter:
http://nexcess.net/forums/showthread...hlight=hotlink

[Vormund]

Much easier way...if your server is Apache... just use .htaccess -- works great. Someone did that to me with one 3MB file [and I have 5gb bandwidth]...they had 3000+ downloads on it, lol, that was annoying when they tried charging me. I called cust. service and complained--they credited it back but never again for me...htaccess it is!

[Keyboard Cowboy]

Well considering that my company is on good terms with my webhost (mainly because set up a lot customer's domains hosting with these guys) I don't have to worry about getting charged extra for bandwidth.

However I don't like the idea that some one is using my work or at least the images that are on my site for their company's website.

Thanks for the .htaccess stuff. I am going to have a subsitute image being my company's URL.
Some thing like :-
FOR A BETTER DEAL ON THIS PRODUCT, TYPE (COMPANY'S URL)

Don't ask me what computer company I work for.
Since my employeer does not pay TF any sponsorship fee, I choose to not post my company's URL and I feel that would be spamming. Plus I would like to come here as a HARPER the invidual computer user as appose to HARPER the employee of XXXXXX Computing PTY LTD.

[slackware05]

I think you should check out this URL the software does cost money but well worth the money. IMO

http://www.physq.com/index.php

[C.Ingram]

$99 seems a bit steep for that. You should be able to get someone to write you the same thing for half that price.

[c0mplexity]

I didn't understand the problem. Can somebody please explain it to me?

[Seiken]

Originally posted by c0mplexity
I didn't understand the problem. Can somebody please explain it to me?

Hot linking is when someone else uses your own bandwidth by posting your images from your server on other websites. People are basically "grabbing" files off you and sucking up your bandwidth.

[OIDanTheManIO]

Here's a generator that you can use that disables hotlinking on your website.

http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml

-Dan The Man