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I have a 'friend' who's having a flash file hotlinked from his site.
He's emailed the person who's taking it off of him many a time asking for them to remove it but the person keeps refusing to remove the file and is just generally being a complete d*ck.
Take into account that this hotlinking has used 10 gig bandwdith from my 'friends' site in the last few months, he wants to try and teach the person a lesson.
.htaccess isn't an option as it's a Windows server and he can't be bothered to install any filters onto the server at this moment in time. Every time the filename is changed, the other person changes the URL in the database to link to the new file. There's no way he can stop this file from being hotlinked at the moment unless he deletes it completely.
He wants to know how he can cause havoc using a flash file, it's being included directly from his site and embedded into the other site's page so it will be easy to do something, just what?
He's though about maybe getting the flash file to refresh every millisecond causing the server to crash, but he isn't sure if this will work.
He wants to know if anyone else has any ideas?
Btw, he doesn't want to screw the entire server over! Just allow him to sort that one site out.
He's emailed the person who's taking it off of him many a time asking for them to remove it but the person keeps refusing to remove the file and is just generally being a complete d*ck.
Take into account that this hotlinking has used 10 gig bandwdith from my 'friends' site in the last few months, he wants to try and teach the person a lesson.
.htaccess isn't an option as it's a Windows server and he can't be bothered to install any filters onto the server at this moment in time. Every time the filename is changed, the other person changes the URL in the database to link to the new file. There's no way he can stop this file from being hotlinked at the moment unless he deletes it completely.
He wants to know how he can cause havoc using a flash file, it's being included directly from his site and embedded into the other site's page so it will be easy to do something, just what?
He's though about maybe getting the flash file to refresh every millisecond causing the server to crash, but he isn't sure if this will work.
He wants to know if anyone else has any ideas?
Btw, he doesn't want to screw the entire server over! Just allow him to sort that one site out.
Ah, I'll just threaten him via email then, it's more fun.
Can't use .htaccess as it's a Windows server, that's why the problem has returned after the new server arrived.
Most people are OK because they give me a link to my site, just this site won't give me a link or anything, they just want to take the file and not give me any credit for providing the bandwidth for them.
Can't use .htaccess as it's a Windows server, that's why the problem has returned after the new server arrived.
Most people are OK because they give me a link to my site, just this site won't give me a link or anything, they just want to take the file and not give me any credit for providing the bandwidth for them.
You absolutely cannot affect his server with your flash file. The only effect you can have is on his users.
I suggest you use ActionScript to read the current web address being used and show some abusive message if the address doesn't match ones you have approved.
As far as my memory serves this stuff is stored in ActionScript environment variables.
Else you could try reading a relative file on the server, and if it doesn't exist then message etc blah blah blah. Bit of a hack though.
Your best plan is to try some .htaccess Apache magic to try block hotlinking.
As a side note, for the purposes of freedom of information you should negotiate a bandwidth-efficient compromise with this guy. I abhor hotlink protection in all forms for any reason. You shouldn't be hosting something if you can't afford the bandwidth. If you're good enough to be making something that's using this much bandwidth then you should be making enough money to afford the bandwidth.
I suggest you use ActionScript to read the current web address being used and show some abusive message if the address doesn't match ones you have approved.
As far as my memory serves this stuff is stored in ActionScript environment variables.
Else you could try reading a relative file on the server, and if it doesn't exist then message etc blah blah blah. Bit of a hack though.
Your best plan is to try some .htaccess Apache magic to try block hotlinking.
As a side note, for the purposes of freedom of information you should negotiate a bandwidth-efficient compromise with this guy. I abhor hotlink protection in all forms for any reason. You shouldn't be hosting something if you can't afford the bandwidth. If you're good enough to be making something that's using this much bandwidth then you should be making enough money to afford the bandwidth.
My fried emailed his host, they want nothing to do with it, he got no reply.
www.web [SPACE] flash.com is the offender. (I don't want Google to cache that URL as a whole as he can find this topic otherwise.)
www.web [SPACE] flash.com is the offender. (I don't want Google to cache that URL as a whole as he can find this topic otherwise.)
monkey_man wrote:
> Your 'friend' could always do the old trick of opening LOADS of popup
> windows at once. I can supply you with some ActionScript to do it if
> you like...?
So Basically a DoS Attack?
You could just find out this guys IP and report him.
> Your 'friend' could always do the old trick of opening LOADS of popup
> windows at once. I can supply you with some ActionScript to do it if
> you like...?
So Basically a DoS Attack?
You could just find out this guys IP and report him.
He didn't want to affect anyone viewing the site, as they don't really know...
But that could be an idea...
I'll tell him.
But that could be an idea...
I'll tell him.
Your 'friend' could always do the old trick of opening LOADS of popup windows at once. I can supply you with some ActionScript to do it if you like...?
I have a 'friend' who's having a flash file hotlinked from his site.
He's emailed the person who's taking it off of him many a time asking for them to remove it but the person keeps refusing to remove the file and is just generally being a complete d*ck.
Take into account that this hotlinking has used 10 gig bandwdith from my 'friends' site in the last few months, he wants to try and teach the person a lesson.
.htaccess isn't an option as it's a Windows server and he can't be bothered to install any filters onto the server at this moment in time. Every time the filename is changed, the other person changes the URL in the database to link to the new file. There's no way he can stop this file from being hotlinked at the moment unless he deletes it completely.
He wants to know how he can cause havoc using a flash file, it's being included directly from his site and embedded into the other site's page so it will be easy to do something, just what?
He's though about maybe getting the flash file to refresh every millisecond causing the server to crash, but he isn't sure if this will work.
He wants to know if anyone else has any ideas?
Btw, he doesn't want to screw the entire server over! Just allow him to sort that one site out.
He's emailed the person who's taking it off of him many a time asking for them to remove it but the person keeps refusing to remove the file and is just generally being a complete d*ck.
Take into account that this hotlinking has used 10 gig bandwdith from my 'friends' site in the last few months, he wants to try and teach the person a lesson.
.htaccess isn't an option as it's a Windows server and he can't be bothered to install any filters onto the server at this moment in time. Every time the filename is changed, the other person changes the URL in the database to link to the new file. There's no way he can stop this file from being hotlinked at the moment unless he deletes it completely.
He wants to know how he can cause havoc using a flash file, it's being included directly from his site and embedded into the other site's page so it will be easy to do something, just what?
He's though about maybe getting the flash file to refresh every millisecond causing the server to crash, but he isn't sure if this will work.
He wants to know if anyone else has any ideas?
Btw, he doesn't want to screw the entire server over! Just allow him to sort that one site out.