Blocking other sites

They are using graphics on my server

[webboy1]

We have found that a website in holland is using images on our website. They shouldn't be doing this in the first place, but instead of downloading the image to use, they have linked directly to the image on our server.

This is causing problems with us in terms of accurate stats, not to mention that it is our bandwidth that is being used up.

I have tried renaming the image - which doesn't work because the other site still connects to look for the image.

We do now have a new site which doesn't include this image .... so it has been delete from the server - but this other site is still linking to ours A LOT!

Is there anyway through IIS that i can actually block this URL from being able to access this directory (or any other) on our server? I guess it is not super urgent ...... but it is a real pain!

Cheers,
Webboy

[mastervisa]

What I do, and I would do in your situation, is put your domain name on your images. Then you get free advertising on their site! Sometimes I put a little thing on there: copyright 2005, www.mydomain.com
But most the time I just stick my domain name on it.

[sem4u]

I had an Ebayer do this with one of my 'widget' images. I just changed the image to read 'free shipping' in large red letters. The image was changed quite quickly :)

[kaled]

After renaming your image, how about placing the following in an image with the old name.

"This website is run by thieves and scumbags".

I think that'll have the desired effect.

Kaled.

[kalos]

This might help, I've never tried it on IIS however.

[qwerksoft.com...]

It's an IIS implementation of mod_rewrite from Apache. Supposedly it's free. If not, I saw a Perl script listed that was which should also do the same thing (Google: IIS mod_rewrite).

-ben

[bcolflesh]

If you can install things on your server, also check out:

[motobit.com...]

[Jane_Doe]

I make a graphic up with the words "For even better prices and selections, shop at www.mysite.com.

Works everytime.

[lammert]

If you are using Apache webserver and have your pictures placed in a seperate folder like /pictures, you could do the following.

First create a file deleted.gif with a very creative message. I leave this one to your own imagination :)

Then add a .htaccess file to your /pictures folder with the content:

Erro

rDocument 404 h..p://www.yourdomain.com/pictures/deleted.gif

This will reroute all request of non existing files from your pictures directory to this file. It even works for .jpg and .png files, as the browser automatically detects the file type.

Works really good for me, and there is no need to replace every deleted picture file with a copy of your deleted.gif version.

[plumsauce]

and this will stop it too:

[coldlink.com ]