Hot Linking and NIS

anyway to get it to work with NIS and NAV

[Visit Thailand]

Thanks to past help from jdmorgan my hotlinking in my .htaccess works great.

But when a user has NIS or NAV turned on it does not.

Is there anyway to get the hotlinking to work even if a user does have NIS or NAV turned on or would that cause too many problems?

More and more people seem to be using NIS or NAV so is quite a big problem.

[jdMorgan]

The solution is to allow blank referers.

Actually, if you are currently blocking blank referers, you've cut off almost all AOL users as well as NIS users.

Access control by referer is an easy but only partially-effective solution. You have to decide between blocking legitimate visitors to keep out more hotlinkers, or allowing all legitimate visitors (including those with blank referers) and allowing more hotlinking.

Or, you can use a different access control mechanism based on more-reliable means, such as dynamically changing the hotlinked resource URls, or using login- or page-visit based cookies and a script to control access. We've had several threads running here on hotlink issues over the past two weeks, and I'm pretty well worn-out on the subject... :(

Jim