Make hot linked images appear on your domain

[seodave]

Is it possible to hot link to an image on another domain, but in a browser (and search engine spider) have it appear that the image is located on the same domain?

Don't worry not looking to hot link to sites that don't allow hot linking.

Thanks

David

[RedAndy]

Hi Dave,

I'm not sure you can so this apache directly, but you could certainly script something with PHP ( or whatever else ) to go and get the file from the remote server and send it out as if it was local,

hth,

Andy

[seodave]

No harm in hoping there was an easier solution :-)

Thanks anyway.

David

[jdMorgan]

You could set up your server as a reverse proxy for the image server. However, before starting down this path, be aware that all requests for those images would appear in the image server's logs as originating from your server, unless custom logging is configured on that server to get the actual client IP address/hostname, and your reverse proxy is configured to send it for that purpose.

If that's OK, see Apache mod_proxy [httpd.apache.org].

Jim