TGP/MGP owners. Your opinion please (conditional page redirect)

[Southfun]

Originally Posted by cd34

Just out of curiosity, when a site is being spidered by a bot and it gets that click here to continue page, and continues spidering, how does that prevent hotlinking? The bot still downloads the file.

The type of hotlinking most people are trying to prevent is from the fusker sites where people set their bots up to suck down all the content they can. Since those bots follow links, what have you stopped?

I guess the honest surfers that are surfing fusker with an actual browser might be stopped.

If its a bot spidering the page ( both "bad" and SE bots ) then it will get to the page. And yeah, it sure can download the movie if it feels like it, but I can't see why a hotlinker would do that?

Hotlinking = domain A has links to content on domain B. So domain A "serves" content to it's surfers while domain B pays the bandwidth bill. If server A uses a bot to dl the movies, it still has to serve them from it's own server, using it's own bandwidth. And then it's called "content theft" and not "hotlinking".

Fusker scripts don't download anything (where did you see/hear that?). They generate html pages with links to pictures on other domains. It's the user's browser that reads these links (img src) and dl the images. And all surfers that visit fusker sites do use "actual browsers".

And yeah, the script does stop fusker sites as well ( thats not it's main purpose), but still...try fuskering this page : http://www.bustyisland.com/freeporn/...dan/index.html ( or any other page on that TGP ) |king|