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jmd
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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:31 pm    Post subject: blocking other sites from using my streams Reply with quote
another site is embeding the player in their web pages to use my media without permission - i.e. they are pointing the player to the media on my http server and not showing copyright info etc. on their html pages, so I want to block their access to my http server, however regular .htaccess blocking doesn't seem to work - I block their domain but windows media still plays my media off their site. how do I prevent that?

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital M
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 3:04 am    Post subject: Re: blocking other sites from using my streams Reply with quote
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:31:12 -0700, jmd
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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regular .htaccess blocking doesn't seem to work - I block their domain
but windows media still plays my media off their site. how do I prevent that?

That's because the requests aren't coming from their domain, but from
the user's machines IP addresses. You need to implement a referer
check on links from your website in apache, and reject any requests
which don't have a referer of your site's base URL. This may still end
up with some of your regular viewers being unable to view your content
if their browser isn't able to send a correct referer string - and is
a fact of life on the web ;-0

Cheers - Neil
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