Programs: Lock up your servers against Fusker

[raymor]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Sparky= cd34
I stated putting these 3 variations in after I found that it was blocking images sometimes when I didn't want it to.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com:80/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com:80.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com:80.*$ [NC]

I used to include the port number, the :80 in my suggested code
years ago. My business partner thought that it wasn't necesary,
so we logged several hundred thousand requests and didn't find
any with the port number, so I took it out. I would agree, though,
that in theory it should be allowed.