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timleonard
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:40 pm    Post subject: No Direct Linking Reply with quote

I am trying to prevent direct linking to some photo content. I am using the following rule which is suppose to redirect to a file called illegal_link.gif. The log file states it's working but it displays the photo not the illegal_link.gif file.

Can some one tell what I have done wrong?

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Request URI=[/img_thumbnails/family_pets_86/116_1698.jpg]:
Rule #1: Regex [^/joomla/(.*)] does not match with the request URI
Rule #2: Regex [^.*\.(bmp|gif|jpeg?|jpg|mov|png|tiff?|wmv|xbm)$] matches with the request URI
Testing the conditions:
HTTP_REFERER (value: []) does not match with [/joomla/.*|/joomlatest/.*|/ee2/.*] => TRUE
All the conditions are verified (TRUE).
Matching results:
$0=/img_thumbnails/family_pets_86/116_1698.jpg
$1=jpg
Replacing the virtual path with [/graphics/illegal_link.gif] => /graphics/illegal_link.gif
Adding the query string replacement [] => /graphics/illegal_link.gif
===> Internal redirection to /graphics/illegal_link.gif
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pkSML
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're probably getting the cached version of the image. Try clearing your browser cache and it should work for you.
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timleonard
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So which is better to use...Anti-leeching or a rewrite rule to prevent direct linking?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's the way I'd do it: Use URL rewriting to redirect a referer that doesn't match your domain.

If you're worried about leeching in the thousands per day, anti-leeching may be a hair faster - in the realm of 1/10000 seconds.
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