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Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:00:50 GMT
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Hi Todd,
you wrote:
> Instead of embedding images hosted on other peoples' servers, people should
> link to the other peoples' web pages -- or make a local copy of the image
> they want (presumably with permission from the copyright owner) and host it
> on their own homepage (on geocities or the auction site or wherever).
Even though I have to admit that I have used direct image links (but with
credit for the source) in some of my eBay auctions, I have to agree with this
argument, and will copy images in the future.
> The robust, long-term solution is to serve the JPEG images selectively to
> on-site pages and reject them to off-site pages, using an Apache webserver
> module called "mod_rewrite" and looking at the HTTP referrer field on-the-
> fly; or invoking a CGI script whenever an image is requested, and optionally
> doing more advanced filtering.
Looks like you already have that cgi script in place now -- would you mind to
share it with less skilled web authors like me?
Greetings
Horst
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 | | Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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| (...) Horst, Here it is (attached below). Note that there are four lines in it that you'll need to redefine with your own server-specific stuff: 1. The path to perl (top of the file) 2. The directory where your images are stored (top of the code) 3. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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