Re: http referrer block

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Alex Kramarov wrote:

> I am runnign a site with a lot of images on it, and bandwidth stealing
> is a problem. I would like to implement http referrer check for every
> request that comes to the site. i saw someone try to implement something
> like this before with a module, but he was not able to get it to work
> right - for wxample, ttux wouldn't add last_modified headers at the
> time.
> 
> what is the correct way to do this ? is there an example of
> "all-userspace" module that changes the processing of requests in tux
> (return error if some condition isn't met) ?
> 
> if i get no answer to this, i will simply put it into the main code into
> proto-http, with some /proc/sys/net/tux flags - i am good, but not good
> enough to start writing modules when i have no sample for it ...

indeed i'd suggest to do this in kernel-space for the time being. Ideally
we'd like to bounce such functionality to user-space, but the module API
is not there yet for this type of stuff.

	Ingo