[squid-users] Hotlink Protection using httpd-accelerator

  Dear Squid User Friends,

  I wish to do 'hotlink protection' when serving images
  from my httpd-accelerator enabled squid servers.

  I found 2 ancient queries for this but no answers:

http://sonja.fon.bg.ac.yu/mirror/squid/mail-archive/squid-users/199905/

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/200/1999/11/100/2897867/

  The definition of hotlinking is well explained below, but it
  basically means "other people using my bw to serve gifs/jpgs
  for their own use".

http://websiteowner.info/tutorials/server/bandwidththeft.asp

  Using apache, this is done by checking the referer, and
  making sure that the referer for all gifs and jpgs is one
  of my valid web sites.

  I'd think I could do this with an access list on squid, but
  I do not believe I can use referers in defining access lists.

  Can someone please help me think of a solution, or show me how
  to do this?

  Best regards,

  Justin
Received on Tue Jul 30 2002 - 00:22:53 MDT