[thelist] Hotlinking prevention

[Ken Schaefer]

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From: "Joshua Olson" <joshua at waetech.com>
Subject: RE: [thelist] Hotlinking prevention


: > > http://concepts.waetech.com/hotlinking/
:
: > I believe he is using some kind of server-side process to do this
: > work. All
: > it does is interact with the IIS Metabase to create a new virtual
: > directory,
: > and point it to the actual folder that holds the images. And then it
: > rewrites the central include file (which each content page is using) to
: > update the values of the variables holding the name of the virtual
: > directory.
:
: Ken,
:
: That is exactly correct.  I use a cron job to fire off the ASP script
every
: few minutes.  It's server-side in that the server is initializing the
call,
: but it's still just an ASP page that does the work.

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Why an ASP page?