Hotlink Protection

[www.girls-on-bikes.com]

Hello All,
Does this image gallery script have any sort of inherent hotlink protection?
Thanks,

[Chris]

No because that's really a function of your web server.

Try this link:
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4642

[www.girls-on-bikes.com]

Thanks for the link.
I went with the .htaccess in my /data directory to prevent hotlinking.

(BTW: To create inherent hotlink prevention, the script would only need to add the ability to choose where you want to have the data directory.  Then you simply put it "above" /public_html and it is not accessable from the web.)

[Chris]

That wouldn't work.  The script does not read the files and output them directly to the browser.  It uses the efficiency of the web server to deliver the media files.  You can search the forums for this topic as it has been discussed recently and debated many times.

Cheers.

[V@no]

maybe u might want check this recent thread:
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5763
I posted an example how to make the script read file and send back to the browser.
this way works just fine for me, but only when file less then 700kb...not sure why I have so low limit, even though all php settings set to 512mb...
hope someone can give me a hint what could be wrong.