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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:42:26 -0600
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Side effect of blocking images

Hello,

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Batara Kesuma wrote:
> 
>>I don't want my images to be linked from other sites. So I added this to
>>my mod_rewrite settings:
>>
>>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://my-server.com/.*$ [NC]
>>RewriteRule .*\.jpg$        -          [F]
>>
>>Does this setting have any side effect? I mean, is there any possibility
>>the user's browser doesn't pass 'Referer' value? Or firewall rule that
>>change the Reference on browser maybe? Anyone has comment on this
>>setting? Please help.

Would it be possible to display an alternate image for those that are 
trying to hot link to images on my site?

Thanks

Dale

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