Hotlinking & Google Desktop Search

[Samizdata]

Recently some of my images have been getting hits with a referrer that starts (delinked) like this:

http*//127.0.0.1:4664/preview?event_id=

I understand it may be someone using Google Desktop Search, which will inspect the user's Temporary Internet Files - though in fact the links from my HTML to the images are all relative to the document, never absolute.

Currently the requests trip the anti-hotlinking routine in my .htaccess file.

My options seem to be to allow the requests by exception or to 403 them.

What do others do in this situation?

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