Redirect from image files

Discussion in 'PHP' started by degy, Jan 2, 2007.

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    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?
     
    degy, Jan 2, 2007 IP
  2. ZareMedia

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

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    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 :)
     
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    What method exactly are you employing for hotlink prevention?
     
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    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
     
    degy, Jan 3, 2007 IP
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    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..
     
    rodney88, Jan 3, 2007 IP