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Topic # 151422 25-Aug-2014 09:06
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My headphones website has hotlink protection in place as a lot of places seem to want to hotlink my images, but it's not working quite right - nothing shows on the website that does the hotlink. I'll hotlink one right below this text



I doubt it shows up. This image (link) is what's meant to show up.

In my logs I see things like this - a 302 redirect

36.81.129.249 - - [24/Aug/2014:07:21:50 -0500] "GET /home2/timmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.kaskus.co.id/thread/000000000000000014660334/puuma-headphone-headsetsennheiserrazersteelseriesozone-dll-harga-kaki-lima" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0"

I did notice a message in my browser about a redirect loop at one point but I can't reproduce it.

Here's the applicable parts of my htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?headphonereviews.org [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ bw.gif [NC,R,L]

Anyone know what's up?

Update - logs from this thread. Seems there's some kind of weird loop going on.

111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:35 -0500] "GET /headphonepics/518.jpg HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:35 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:35 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:35 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:35 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:35 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:35 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:36 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:36 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:36 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:36 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:36 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:36 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:36 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:36 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:36 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:37 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:38 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:38 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:38 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:38 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:38 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:38 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:38 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:38 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:38 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:39 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:39 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 321 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
111.69.152.28 - - [24/Aug/2014:16:06:39 -0500] "GET /home2/timmmay/public_html/hr/bw.gif HTTP/1.1" 302 313 "http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=151422" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"




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  Reply # 1114949 25-Aug-2014 09:30
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  Reply # 1114962 25-Aug-2014 10:30
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Ah, the problem could be that the bw.gif image is under hotlink protection. Any idea how I get around that?




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  Reply # 1114966 25-Aug-2014 10:43
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The best person to help will be the host. Maybe a hosting configuration problem.



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  Reply # 1114989 25-Aug-2014 11:11
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I could ask support but it's not a host specific problem.




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This link should show you how to do it: http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html

For the replacement image, use something like Google hosted, Dropbox, Imgur (or another domain) to avoid the loop.

That said, be aware that there are some situations where the browsers won't pass along a referer, so you could end up showing the hotlink image to people actually visiting your site.




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  Reply # 1115079 25-Aug-2014 12:48
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Ah so basically get it off the server. I wonder if tubgirl is still active ;) I have a dozen domains but I think all are hotlink protected, dropbox might work, didn't know you could do that easily. It's a moderate volume website so would get a bit of traffic.




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  Reply # 1115122 25-Aug-2014 13:35
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Uploaded the image to imgur, all done. Thanks Jarledb! :)




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