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 Posted by chancegardinner on 05/27/07 20:40 
Thanks for the replies. It is the referrer. 
 
I use a local proxy server called Proxomitron that alllows you to 
strip or replace anything in the html of the webpage or anything in 
the header. I use it mainly to remove the no cache tags. 
 
There is a prewritten rule in Proxomitron that will  strip the 
referer  or there is an option to substitute a URL  of your own as the 
referring address. I don't know what a referrer tag should look like. 
What is the format for a referrer tag in the header? 
 
In reading up on referrers, I found this site: 
http://www.garthgillespie.com/tools/iterator.php 
 
It seems to act as a proxy server referrer spoofer. If you plug in the 
address of the .jpg, it returns this URL which will then retrieve the 
"real" pic from the server: 
 
http://www.garthgillespie.com/tools/refspoof.php?ref=&url=http://www.oceancitycam.com/images/board1.jpg 
 
This is only for my own web browsing and enlightenment. I have 
bookmarked an assortment of pics (like Piccadilly Circus and  Times 
Square) that I like to open in full screen views in my browser. I am 
not trying to steal bandwidth by putting others' pics on a webpage. 
 
 
 
 
> The site checks for the referrer. When I turn off referrers in my 
> Firefox, I only ever see the ersatz imagehttp://www.oceancitycam.com/images/hotlink.jpeg, even within their main 
> page. I must have referrers enabled, and I must be accessing the 
> board1.jpg image via their site. They're doubtless enforcing this with 
> .htaccess files. 
> 
> See, for example,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotlinkandhttp://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html. 
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