RE: http referrer detection possible?

"Mark Coffman" <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:13:51 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.publicfile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Any word from your client?  Yours is the only reply I've had so far from
the list.

Thanks!
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 13:59
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: http referrer detection possible?

Mark Coffman writes:
 > It looks like I may have a bandwidth thief taking advantage of me.
I'm running publicfile httpd for ultra-quick image serving for my web
site http://www.epilogue.net
 > 
 > Is there any way that I can compile publicfile to detect http
referrers so I can block any originating outside my web site, much like
I can do with htaccess and apache?

I wrote some code for a customer to implement that.  Lemme check to
see if he's okay with me giving it out.

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