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How To Avoid The Bandwidth Robbery, How to avoid the bandwidth Stealing

June 12th, 2007, Internet, General, admin,  Print This Post

Sometimes, some people link directly to images in your host. This people is robbering you bandwidth. To avoid this only have to write some code lines in your .htaccess file in your host root:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://your-domain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.your-domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|swf|png)$ - [NC,F]

There is another thing you can do. You can also show an image you want instead linked images. So the people that has been robbering you bandwidth will take a surprise. Just ad this to code:

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RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg)$ image path[R,NC]

I hope you enjoy this.

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