Archive for 5th October 2007

Take That, Bandwidth Leeches

A recent trip through my hit reports revealed a startling fact: This site’s bandwidth is being heavily leeched.

Yes, I never thought it could happen to me, an innocent little development blog that posts an occasional hot babe. But then, it did happen; it seems many, many people like the image of the fat Denver Broncos cheerleader candidate, and have been hotlinking to it from many, many BBS.

So, I have struck my revenge with mod_rewrite. With a couple lines of code, you can pretty much shut down hotlinking of images and other resources, period:

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