Why I use HTTP redirects
This post was published 4 years 2 months 20 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Basically, this guys blog was picked up by ZDNET. But instead of just quoting the text in the blog, ZDNET also was leeching bandwidth by linking directly to a picture.
The webmaster, rightfully so, was pissed about this – so he went to hysterical lengths to teach ZDNET a lesson.
UPDATE: As requested, here is how to create a HTTP redirect. All you need to do is create a simple text file, with the following information, called .htaccess and put it in the root folder of your website.
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://uneasysilence.com" good
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.uneasysilence.com/" good
< filesmatch ".(exe|mpg|zip|torrent|mov|mp3|mp4|wmv|jpg)" >
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from env=good
< / FilesMatch>
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer would equal the only sites you want to access files served on your website. and filesmatch “.(exe|mpg|zip|torrent|mov|mp3|mp4|wmv|jpg)” would indicate the restricted files.
I’m having exactly this problem lately, lots of people republishing my articles and leeching bandwidth from the images. What’s this HTTP redirect thing you use?
znet has removed the image, but google cache still has the original content see it here
How can you test if this is working?