Re: [squid-users] Hotlink Protection using httpd-accelerator

I posted a patch for this back in December. It's probably a part of 2.5.
The patch should work for 2.4.

        -- Brian

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 02:17 am, you wrote:
> Dear Squid User Friends,
>
> I wish to do 'hotlink protection' when serving images
> from my httpd-accelerator enabled squid servers.
>
> I found 2 ancient queries for this but no answers:
>
> http://sonja.fon.bg.ac.yu/mirror/squid/mail-archive/squid-users/199905/
>
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/200/1999/11/100/2897867/
>
> The definition of hotlinking is well explained below, but it
> basically means "other people using my bw to serve gifs/jpgs
> for their own use".
>
> http://websiteowner.info/tutorials/server/bandwidththeft.asp
>
> Using apache, this is done by checking the referer, and
> making sure that the referer for all gifs and jpgs is one
> of my valid web sites.
>
> I'd think I could do this with an access list on squid, but
> I do not believe I can use referers in defining access lists.
>
> Can someone please help me think of a solution, or show me how
> to do this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Justin
Received on Tue Jul 30 2002 - 01:40:08 MDT