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Jun 05.2004

Hello Members,
I’m a newbie in website development, so forgive me for stupid questions and the long explanation.
In which way is it possible to deny downloading an image file from a directory on a webserver from the locationbar ?
Here my problem:
I have images in a directory /photos.
My webaddress is www.mysite.com
The website info shows me for the location of the image file www.mysite.com/photos/sample.gif
Everyone can download the file as soon as one puts this address into the location bar. And exactly this possibility I want to prevent.
Is it possible ? If so in which way ?

Thank you for any suggestions hints to look for…..

Bingo5

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@AdamGundryJun 06.2004 — You could try using a .htaccess file like this (based on code [url=http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/bandwidththeft.shtml]here[/url]):

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^$" locationbar=1
<FilesMatch ".(gif|png|jpe?g)$">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=locationbar
</FilesMatch>

Bear in mind this may cause problems for users whose browser does not set the HTTP_REFERER header correctly.

Adam
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@Bingo5authorJun 06.2004 — Hi Adam,

will try that and see if it's what I think of.

Bingo5
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