"Med" <nospam@nowhere.nowhere> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to detect in asp.net if images are hot-linked from another
> websites? I intend to create a default image and serve that image instead
> of the image requested from another website?
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Med
>

"Med" <nospam@nowhere.nowhere> wrote in message
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> >It depends on what you mean by "hot-linked".
>
> "Hot-Link" usually refers to the a URL embeded in the html to read a
> file/image from another source/website instead of local file/image on the
> web server's Folder. (i.e. <img
> src="http://www.otherpeopleswebsite.com/images/cat.jpg"> instead of <img
> src="images/cat.jpg">)
>
> Thank you all for the suggestions. I think the http_referrer is the
> easier option, however writing a custom IHttpHandler seems interesting
> too.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Med
>
> "Med" <nospam@nowhere.nowhere> wrote in message
> news:%235wEqiWPHHA.1756@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to detect in asp.net if images are hot-linked from another
>> websites? I intend to create a default image and serve that image instead
>> of the image requested from another website?
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards
>>
>> Med
>>
>
>

> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to detect in asp.net if images are hot-linked from another
> websites? I intend to create a default image and serve that image instead of
> the image requested from another website?

>It depends on what you mean by "hot-linked".

"Med" <nospam@nowhere.nowhere> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to detect in asp.net if images are hot-linked from another
> websites? I intend to create a default image and serve that image instead
> of the image requested from another website?
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Med
>

"Tim Van Wassenhove" <timvw@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
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> Med schreef:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to detect in asp.net if images are hot-linked from another
>> websites? I intend to create a default image and serve that image instead
>> of the image requested from another website?
>
> I can think of following techniques (but they're not 100% reliable)
>
> - Check if a HTTP_REFERER header exists, and if it's value is an URL in
> your website.
>
> - Check if a cookie is present (the cookie should be generated on all the
> pages in your website).
>
>
> --
> Tim Van Wassenhove <url:http://www.timvw.be/>