Prevent hotlinking

[Michael Shadle]

And video embedding is infamous for not sending info. At least windows  
media player type embedding. Not sure if flash players are better.

On Apr 12, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Gabriel Ramuglia <gabe at vtunnel.com> wrote:

> Your browser will almost always send referrers. As mentioned,
> sometimes a security suite will block referrers. Sometimes flash won't
> send referrers when it makes requests (sometimes it will). You just
> want to also allow blank referrers in addition to the "correct"
> referrers.
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Max <maxbear at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks. I tried that. But it's still not working. I am using  
>> wordpress.
>> Don't know what referrer header wordpress send.
>>
>> Max
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Michael Shadle  
>> <mike503 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Try
>>>
>>> "valid_referers none blocked *.etc.com etc"
>>>
>>> perhaps you're not sending a referrer header. Some "internet  
>>> security
>>> suites" do that for "privacy" and I hate them. or malfunctioning
>>> browsers or some browsers include that option now.
>>>
>>> that's the only thing I see wrong there.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Max <maxbear at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I tried to use the following code to prevent hotlinking. But it  
>>>> blockes
>>>> myself as well, anyone got any idea?
>>>>
>>>> location ~* (\.jpg|\.png|\.css)$ {
>>>>     valid_referers blocked domain.com *.domain.com;
>>>> if ($invalid_referer) {
>>>> return 404;
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Max
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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