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2009-06-18, 12:06 PM | #1 |
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Fusker Re-Visited
Ok, so I've had hotlink protection on for my images forever and I've never had an issue with fusker. Now I am seeing a ton of referrals in my stats from several fusker domains, so I'm guessing that they are hotlinking my movies (wmvs)?
So I was thinking I could block them completely as a referrer. So I guess my questions are will this work, and if it would is the below code what I should put in my .htaccess? PHP Code:
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2009-06-18, 12:11 PM | #2 |
a.k.a. Sparky
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Posts: 2,396
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if you see it in your stats, are they 200/304 successes? or 403s? There is an addon that they use for IE and can use for firefox that blocks referrers and sends an empty referrer, allowing them to still post their entries, but, surfers without those addons will surf galleries that have tons of 403 errors.
If it is in your stats, you can be somewhat sure that they aren't hitting .wmv files because Windows Media doesn't send a referrer. Code:
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (fusker|fukser|fuskem|eonpal) [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
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2009-06-18, 12:12 PM | #3 |
Subversive filth of the hedonistic decadent West
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Southeast Florida
Posts: 27,936
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Trouble is if you allow no referral traffic, like bookmarks, then places like fusker will use this to hotlink by blocking the referral.
Also as Chris just mentioned wmv files don't send any referral which is why I never use them. |
2009-06-18, 03:45 PM | #4 |
There's Xanax in my thurible!
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Thank you both. I updated my htaccess with CD34' recommendation and I'll keep an eye on my stats and see what happens.
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