On Aug 8, 2006, at 8:25 AM, Frash wrote:

In that case it'd be a wise idea to only allow requests with the
server IP
referrer AND no referrer at all. (Since it's impossible for "evil"
admins to
strip the referrer, only people with a stripped referrer would be
able to
download stuff, the other 90% would be unable to.)

Stripping the referrer is as easy as copying the link and pasting
into your address bar, and hitting enter.

There's really no reasonable way to do this in a fashion that will
work in every case. A referrer check will solve most of the problems,
but if someone wants the files on a public webserver and they know
the url, they're going to get them.

--
Erik Hollensbe
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