[Gllug] Apache - deny image access

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:33:52PM +0100, Andre Newman wrote:
> > to restrict users from directly gaining access to the directory's
> > contents thus:
> > foobar.com/images/photo1.jpg.
> >
> > Is there any way to do this in Apache or is it done another way? Any
> > ideas?
> 
> I saw an Apache config fragment once that only allowed access to image
> filetypes if they were referred from a page on the same server.

Ick! Referer headers aren't reliable. eg. Some AOL-modified versions
of IE don't send them. I'm pretty sure they're optional in the RFCs
too (though I haven't *actually* checked).

Rich.

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