2009/8/7 Nathan Kennedy <[email protected]> > Wazza, > > > > I appreciate your comments. > > > > If I choose to have a picture of a poo, and just happen to name it > loading.gif, is there anything wrong with that? It’s not like it’s illegal > material which has an age restriction etc. It comes down to people not > having any control over what people store on a remote server, therefore you > should definitely not hotlink. > I can't see anything wrong with it (Disclaimer - I am not a lawyer ...) - however it's more the impression that it leaves, given google cache and being a global, public network.
> No issues with the proxies, because I’ve changed the image URL that I use > on my own site to something completely different. No risk of the incorrect > image being displayed on my own site. > There is an issue with proxies, as going through the callplus proxy, I received the poo image on your own site (when accessing the loading file directly) > I was originally thinking of redirecting the request elsewhere, but then I > figured that would make me just as bad by ‘hotlinking’ to someone else. > Yeah - two wrongs don't make a right, I guess :-D > I agree about a 404 being more professional and less traffic, but I thought > it was worth having a bit of fun with first. > Gotta have fun these days! I was thinking more a 403, Forbidden would be better. (Although 410, Gone or 502, Bad Gateway would equally suffice). Cheers, Wazza. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
