Hotlinking Fuckhead even with htaccess

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Originally posted by Ramster
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*baberankings.com/.*$ [NC]

Hey Ramster,
The reason, as far as I can tell, that the wanker was getting around your htaccess is because of the * infront of your domain name. Basically the way your RewriteCond is being interpreted is that ANY referer that begins with "http://" and contains "baberankings.com" is accepted.
It should be like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.baberankings.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://baberankings.com/.*$ [NC]

p.s. - that was a pretty shitty response you got from Candid.