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Site Boards => Message Board Help => Topic started by: boyo on June 12, 2008, 09:26:16 am
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Look at this picture.
http://i27.tinypic.com/2zflu9k.gif
I'm using Firefox and it has nothing to do with my cache.
A few months ago I could see all the pictures, but now they all show up as this hotlinking picture.
I can guarantee that nothing on my computer has changed.
I can only assume the server has banned my ip address or something.
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Are you using a proxy?
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No. It worked before. I haven't changed anything.
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What do you see here:
http://adurah.com/step2.html
If it isn't the URL of this page, you have problems.
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It says "You came from: https://www.vgmaps.com/forums/index.php?topic=750"
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If you're in Firefox, enter about:config in the address bar and type "referer" in the box. It looks like you have it set to 1, but it should be 2.
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You're right. That fixed it.
What's the difference between 1 and 2?
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0 = don't send a referer
2 = send it for everything
1 = don't send it for images
"nothing on my computer has changed"
Except that :)
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Yeah, somehow.
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I have the same problem running on internet explorer. (version 7 i think) I'm sure that the referer is the problem but how do i fix it?
Going to the referer test page earlier in this forum says this:
You came from: Your address bar, a bookmark, or you sent no referer.
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It's either something you did to IE, via an add-on, or you have a proxy between you and the internet. Some ad-blockers have this effect.
Jon really ought to change the blocker to allow through blank referers.
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Someone on these forums suggested the code I implemented as-is to prevent hotlinking, if that's where the issue is.
I guess I'll have to go back and find where I stuck that snippet of code (I'm guessing the main root HTML file or root folder).
Would allowing blank referrers let potential bandwidth-sucking hotlinkers in, though?
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It'll be in .htaccess in the web root directory. Try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?vgmaps\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/noleech.png [L]
Allowing blank referers will allow:
- people with image referers turned off in Firefox
- people with a proxy that removes the referer (often as a "privacy" option)
- people who copy and paste a direct URL to an image into their address bar
- people who try really hard to rip you off by having their linking page have ".vgmaps.com" in the URL (eg. http://www.mysite.com/imrippingoff.vgmaps.com/somepage.html)
and will block:
- people with regular browser setups who click on a link from another website
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Okay, it's been implemented. It should work just as Maxim says...
Hope that fixes it!
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I can finally open images in tabs now!
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I could always open images in tabs.
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It works now! Thanks guys ;-)