Redirect from image files

[degy]

Hy
i'm looking for a way to redirect to same page every time anyone wants to access specific image (example.gif for example :P ). Something like scipts for preventing hotlinking. But for only one image. I can't use .htaccess becouse godaddy doesn't support it.

Is this even possible?

[ZareMedia]

Without .htaccess or some apache configuration changes, no. An image request hits your webserver directly and this never comes into play with PHP.

[degy]

ok i did it with .htaccess is there any way to know which image was hotlinked? $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] doesn't work. And again, is this even possible :)

[ZareMedia]

What method exactly are you employing for hotlink prevention?

[degy]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?beautiesdb\.org/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ redirect.php [L]
Exactly this :D well i read that it's only safe to redirect to files with same extention as the one hotlinked but this works for me

[rodney88]

I can't see why it would ever be unsafe to redirect to different file extensions.. that would kinda limit the main uses of mod_rewrite.

degy, HTTP_REFERER will give you the referring page, i.e. the page that the image was linked from. Try REQUEST_URI instead..