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A little help from any techy folks
Jul. 23rd, 2006 06:05 pmThis weekend, on checking the referer logs for The Haven, I noticed that there was a sudden surge in hits and bandwidth on the site. I did a little digging and found that 75% of my referals were coming from a forum for a boy band. Er, I may have registered on it so that I could take a peek on exactly what was being linked to :-)
Somebody was direct linking to one of my Doctor Who icons to use as their avatar, which was why my stats when completely screwy. The thing that's worrying me is that the folder the icon was in had an .htaccess file that should have prevented that - it locks down direct links to my domain, my LJ and the LJ communities that I post to. Every other site that's attempted to hotlink to images protected by that file gets my rude anti-hotlinking image instead (and I've chortled over that a few times...).
Does anyone know how this little brat could have bypassed it? I've changed the file name of the affected icon and she's now getting served with the anti-hotlink image, but I'm a little concerned that this could happen again and I don't want to spend time tracking down these things every couple of weeks.
No, I didn't email the brat. She's apparently 14 years old and I figured that the odds were that if she's deliberated worked out how to bypass my .htaccess file then she'll probably not take my ticking her off well *sigh* My blood pressure and stress levels do not need a 14 year old going on a flame war kick on me.
Somebody was direct linking to one of my Doctor Who icons to use as their avatar, which was why my stats when completely screwy. The thing that's worrying me is that the folder the icon was in had an .htaccess file that should have prevented that - it locks down direct links to my domain, my LJ and the LJ communities that I post to. Every other site that's attempted to hotlink to images protected by that file gets my rude anti-hotlinking image instead (and I've chortled over that a few times...).
Does anyone know how this little brat could have bypassed it? I've changed the file name of the affected icon and she's now getting served with the anti-hotlink image, but I'm a little concerned that this could happen again and I don't want to spend time tracking down these things every couple of weeks.
No, I didn't email the brat. She's apparently 14 years old and I figured that the odds were that if she's deliberated worked out how to bypass my .htaccess file then she'll probably not take my ticking her off well *sigh* My blood pressure and stress levels do not need a 14 year old going on a flame war kick on me.
