eBay image hotlinkers

Reply to eBay image hotlinkers on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:03:03 GMT

djoska — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:03:03 GMT

I did like the idea of making the ebay seller's image change!! v.knice!

I bet he's still out there rubbin' his hands ripping off innocent fans who have yet to discover this discussion!!

Reply to eBay image hotlinkers on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:36:59 GMT

NeilJones — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:36:59 GMT

Assuming Keith's script is something that you drop in the root of the web server, then it would be possible to make another file which you drop in another folder and anything in there one can hot-link from (for example if you want to remote host something from your own site for display on a forum).

But having said that, its still very inconsiderate to hot-link in the first place when its not your site.. It's really not a lot of effort to download the picture you want and put it somewhere else, in eBay's case you can actually upload your picture to their server.

This method, IIRC, can be tweaked to allow remote-loading only from certain domains.

My previous project I caught images being loaded from my server for display onto a web forum. I think somebody had tacked it onto their signature so I had a few thousand hits listed in the web stat logs from this one web server all linking to the same image. They'd have got away with it as well if I hadn't checked the web stats on occasion.

Reply to eBay image hotlinkers on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:09:53 GMT

TheBrollachan — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:09:53 GMT

In my opinion that is there hard luck. I assume they didn't ask if they could 'borrow' Knightmare.com's bandwidth prior. They aren't the ones who have to pay for the hosting, which I image costs quite a bit due to the bandwidth used.

Ok I was thinking myself about sending an altered version of the pic with the "Image thief" bit replaced to mention that all KM DVD sales are of authorised copies and are illegal, as the bulk of the hotlinking has occured on ebay.

Reply to eBay image hotlinkers on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:47:05 GMT

Illusion — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:47:05 GMT

Okay, I've just edited the image so that the "image thief" bit has been removed. Just that I've now received complaints that the message is appearing on some other sites which people have quite innocently linked to the odd image here and there! (not that I had any knowledge of!).

Reply to eBay image hotlinkers on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:06:40 GMT

TheBrollachan — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:06:40 GMT

In total the following aucitions all are/were attempting to hotlink...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/knightmare-DVD-Series-1-2-1p-Start-Best-On-Ebay_W0QQitemZ6457568443QQcategoryZ80025QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Knightmare-Dungeons-Dragons-Full-Series-3-and-4_W0QQitemZ6459120942QQcategoryZ41530QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Knightmare-Dungeons-Dragons-Full-Series-3-and-4_W0QQitemZ6459121466QQcategoryZ41530QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/knightmare-DVD-Series-1-2-1p-Start-Best-On-Ebay_W0QQitemZ6457559029QQcategoryZ80025QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Hotlinking to images on this site causes a drain on knightmare.com's bandwidth, and was one of the contributing factors to why the site exceeded its bandwidth last month.

Edit note: If going straight from those auctions to this site you may have to force the cache to be reloaded by hitting [Ctrl] + [F5].