[plug] Apache Server Client User Aggreement

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Sun Nov 7 20:25:37 WST 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 20:04, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> another possible way is to write a redirect script that looks for a
> referer link.
> 
> if the referer is anything but the site, redirect to the accept page,
> presumably the url is available. then the accept link links back to the
> required page.
> 
> this also should break file leaching too, which is kinda nifty.
> 
> you'll have to look up anti-leach scripts and use some headscratching, but
> I reckon it'll work.

Any "leech" worth his salt will know about "wget --referer=url" or any
of the multitude of similar tools with similar functions out there.
It'll stop casual users and morons though, which may be good enough.

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Craig Ringer




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