Can you do this with hotlink protection?

Factual Questions
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I would try Google for this but I have no idea what words to search…

I have a fansite that gets quite a number of hits and it has a few thousand photos. People post our photos all over fan forums and although we don’t mind text-linking to our photos, we hate it when someone posts 10 images from our gallery on a high-traffic fan forum… every time someone opens the thread to read the posts inside, the 10 pictures get redownloaded even if the viewer has no need of seeing them again.

Is there any way of changing my .htaccess file to disallow “remote downloading” of our pictures while allowing downloads from remote text-links to pictures?

Or is it just not possible? :frowning:

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I don’t know the answer, but there are some pretty bright folks at Webmaster World who might be better able to answer your question, if no one here can.

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The always helpful Q.E.D. :wink: Thanks, I’ll bookmark that site.

But really, if anyone here knows, tell me and save me the registration effort to Webmaster World… at least for now. :smiley: