Comments on: How to: Stop Image Hotlinking http://www.8bitmagazine.com/how-to-stop-image-hotlinking/ Resources for bloggers, designers and web designers. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:36:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Babaji M Phttp://www.8bitmagazine.com/how-to-stop-image-hotlinking/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Babaji M P Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:55:43 +0000 http://www.8bitmagazine.com/?p=431#comment-227 Using a replacement image is working.But ... ,The replacement images changes to the dimension of the copied image !For eg.,The original image is http://mysite.com/image.jpg of dimension 800x900 replacement image is http://hosted.com/image.jpg of dimension 200x300Now, the problem here is the replacement image is stretched to 800x900, making it hard to see the warning on the replacement image.Any idea how to make the replacement image to show specific dimension via .htaccess ?Thank You. Using a replacement image is working.

But … ,

The replacement images changes to the dimension of the copied image !

For eg.,

The original image is http://mysite.com/image.jpg of dimension 800×900
replacement image is http://hosted.com/image.jpg of dimension 200×300

Now, the problem here is the replacement image is stretched to 800×900,
making it hard to see the warning on the replacement image.

Any idea how to make the replacement image to show specific dimension via .htaccess ?

Thank You.

]]> By: 8bitmaghttp://www.8bitmagazine.com/how-to-stop-image-hotlinking/comment-page-1/#comment-52 8bitmag Tue, 26 May 2009 18:06:39 +0000 http://www.8bitmagazine.com/?p=431#comment-52 Hi Kristi If you have lots of images in post that is hotlinked its not so fun to rename them all. Its very time consuming. With .htaccess all process is automatic. Immediately when hotlinking is detected, all images are replaced with your custom image. + You can have name and logo on that image..You know, its like free advertising on they site :) Hosting image elsewhere is bad thing because you will not get traffic from image search engines. Don't underestimate the traffic driving power of self-hosted images.Cheers Hi Kristi
If you have lots of images in post that is hotlinked its not so fun to rename them all. Its very time consuming. With .htaccess all process is automatic. Immediately when hotlinking is detected, all images are replaced with your custom image. + You can have name and logo on that image..You know, its like free advertising on they site :) Hosting image elsewhere is bad thing because you will not get traffic from image search engines. Don’t underestimate the traffic driving power of self-hosted images.

Cheers

]]> By: Kikolanihttp://www.8bitmagazine.com/how-to-stop-image-hotlinking/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Kikolani Mon, 25 May 2009 21:24:30 +0000 http://www.8bitmagazine.com/?p=431#comment-51 Definitely good tips! I found one of my post images was being linked to, and I just changed the name of the image which fixed them. My photos are all through Flickr, which is also helpful in preventing that.~ Kristi Definitely good tips! I found one of my post images was being linked to, and I just changed the name of the image which fixed them. My photos are all through Flickr, which is also helpful in preventing that.

~ Kristi

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