Posted by Toby Inkster on 11/19/59 11:34

Mark Parnell wrote:

> Yes. But unless you have permission from the other site to do so, it's
> called hotlinking, and is bandwidth theft.

Nobody is "stealing" the bandwidth. If I choose to link to one of your
images using an IMG element and other people make requests to the image
because of my IMG element, then who is using your bandwidth.

You are. Because your webserver is sending out a large binary file. If you
don't want your bandwidth used up, then configure it to drop all
conections to port 80.

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