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I see them now.
I just have a firewall and pop up blockers. I doubt they would have prevented me from seeing anything, but who knows. I also don’t see how that would be relevant since the graphics were 403 forbidden, not unviewable.
But anyway it is fixed so I guess it doesn’t matter.
BlackjackInfo wrote:Preventing hot-linking generally works by examining the referrer field on the incoming web requests, and if the request is coming from an external domain, the request is prohibited.If a visitor is using a browser that doesn’t send a referrer field to the server, they won’t be able to see your images, even if they’re browsing your site. Since some browsers allow the user to turn off the referrer capability, I generally don’t think the prevention of hot linking is worth the trouble it causes.Very interesting BlackjackInfo; thank you for this information. I don’t remember if the hot-linking was turned off by default when I signed up, or if I disabled it after I set everything up. Either way, I had no idea it would affect the viewability of the images under normal browsing circumstances. In the future, when I launch additional websites, I’ll definitely check to make sure hot-linking is enabled.
Classics, thanks for checking it again, and for initially bringing this to my attention. Now I need to work on improving my site’s PR….
One more followup:
Here’s a list of software that usually does HTTP_REFERER blocking. and would therefore cause images to not appear if hot-linking is disabled.
Norton Internet Security
Zone Alarm
Most ad-blocking software
Perhaps even the Windows XP SP2 firewall does this.Norton is the most common culprit.
Hi,
quote:I feel like I’m susceptible to bandwidth leeching.unquote:just curious, but if someone was hotlinking images, which I assume most would be banners; wouldn’t they also carry Engineer’s affiliate code in with them?
If that’s the case; get your hotlinks here!
ps.
Engineer, how or I should maybe say where are the quotes in this new fangled system?
tiafyr
Hi Steve,
bb1webs wrote:just curious, but if someone was hotlinking images, which I assume most would be banners; wouldn’t they also carry Engineer’s affiliate code in with them?No, the images by themselves don’t have the affiliate code attached. That’s why I was concerned about bandwidth leeching. The affiliate code is something that is added to the anchor tags when you make the image into a link on the webpage. i.e., the affiliate code is only associated with the image when you put it between the and anchor tags.
Quote:If that’s the case; get your hotlinks here!HAH! :laugh: Well, you could, but I think everyone here is respectful of this sort of thing. Hopefully it won’t become a problem for me. I mean, really, you could use anyone’s banners if you wanted to, because presumably everyone else has hot-linking disabled as well.
I suppose if it becomes a serious problem, if someone starts leeching major amounts of bandwidth, then I’ll have to look into a way to put an end to it. Two options I can think of right now would be to (1) Disable hot-linking again, or (2) Find a way to block certain IP addresses from accessing the images.
Quote:Engineer, how or I should maybe say where are the quotes in this new fangled system?There should be a button below each person’s post that says “Quote.” If you click that, then it should automatically put the person’s entire post inside the quote tags. If you do it manually, then to begin a quote, type [qu*te] before the passage being quoted (change the * to the letter O), and type [/qu*te] at the end of the passage. To specify which person you’re quoting, for the opening quote, type [qu*te=Engineer] to refer to me, or [qu*te=Professor] to refer to the Professor, etc. The end tag of [/qu*te] remains the same either way.
Quote:tiafyryw. :colgate:
