After viewing my Recent Visitors file in Cpanel, I set about blocking a
couple of image pirates.
Adding their IP addresses (gleaned with nslookup) to my .htaccess file
(located under my domain in which the images are stored) did not block their
use of my images. Similarly, adding the actual domain names to my .htaccess
file also failed to achieve any blocking effect.
Then I submitted a support ticket to my ISP ... shortly thereafter, I saw in
the recent visitors file that they had tried to access those images and had
gotten the desired 403 response ("access denied"). Nevertheless, still no
luck with my installation of Abrowser ... apparently still not blocked.
Blocked for other users, though.
Just checking, I tried the offending URL's in another installation of
ABbrowser on a USB-connected hard drive on which Trisquel is also installed
... Whoopie ! - Images gone from the offending website ... seemingly, a
success.
Not so lucky; images still appear in my Abrowser. I deleted the History from
this reluctant-to-block Abrowser ... no luck.
Icecat also shows the blocked images; it's in the same Trisquel installation.
This has only happened with a couple of domains. All the rest are immediately
blocked and return "access denied" right after I've added their domain name
or its IP address to my .htaccess file.
Something about my installations of Abrowser and Icecat is over-riding the
blocked status of those domains. What could that be ?
George Langford
amenex
