Script to stop leeching

Sergeant Joined: Feb 12, 2003 Posts: 82 Location: USA

I have installed a small script on my site to stop leeching and was wondering if anyone would be willing to try and leech one of the images on my site to see if the thing works.

Right now it is set up for jpg and gif extensions, but if it works, I am going to try and see if I can get it set up for zip and tar.gz files. The script shouldn't stop the right click and save, or the downloading directly from the site, but it should not allow anyone to leech from the site.

The address is: http://www.bootleghollow.com/modules.php?name=My_eGallery use any image there except the Avatars. I haven't loaded the script there as of yet.

Let me know, or maybe show me how to leech from my own site. Thanks in advance.

I am actually going to try and link an image to this site, to see if it works too.

Hmmm....works?

Lieutenant Joined: Jul 13, 2003 Posts: 165

Dauthus:

I setup a sample webpage that references and loads an image from your website. The sample webpage also has a link to download the image from your website.

Users can both display and reference images from your site on another site. See http://members.lycos.co.uk/sqrlspam/leech.htm

Hope that helps.

Sergeant Joined: Feb 12, 2003 Posts: 82 Location: USA

I take it you viewed the image before you created the page. If you did this, the image may be loading from the memory, and not from the site. I had to delete files under tools, internet options of IE before I could get an actual complete test.

I can't get anything to display, and the link gives me Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /modules/My_eGallery/gallery/comedy/T-Shirts7.jpg on this server.

You say you can display and reference the images? Can everyone else see this, or am I the only one who can't?

Thanks oprime2001 for the help.

Sergeant Joined: Feb 12, 2003 Posts: 82 Location: USA

Here's what I am using. It seems to work for me. I created .htaccess files in each directory I wanted to protect. I ain't sure if it was needed, but what the heck. It doesn't take too much room.

Put the contents of this file into your .htaccess file (should be in your webroot directory, create one if you don't have one) and then tweak to suit (add/remove any file extensions to protect, and change the first line to match your site - consult the PHP documentation for more on how Regular Expressions work). If your ISP/webhost doesn't let you change Apache settings for your site with a .htaccess file, this will not work and cannot be made to work. It doesn't work on Geocities.

Code:

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://[0-9a-z]*\.?yourdomain\.com/" local_ref=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^$" local_ref=1
<FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpg|png|pdf|swf)">
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from env=local_ref
</FilesMatch>

I honestly don't remember where this came from, but if anyone does, be sure and give them the credit they deserve.

Lieutenant Joined: Jul 13, 2003 Posts: 165

But I think that if you DISABLE javascript on your browser, you can see the image. If javascript is ENABLED, you get the message about the RIAA .... leeching etc.

However, I cannot confirm this now because of this 500 internal Server Error message that I am encountering. I will try again later.

Sergeant Joined: Feb 12, 2003 Posts: 82 Location: USA

Hmmm. I will have to look into that. I don't know why javascript would have anything to do with the .htaccess file, but then again I never said I was good at this stuff.

Thanks again for all your help. Guess I will keep working on it.