Just curious if it is possible to prevent people from linking directly to image and/or file resources on my server?
I get a lot of web traffic from people who have visited my site, then link directly to my downloads and/or images within their own web site. Because I am a startup company on a small server, and on a connection without a whole lot of bandwidth, I would like to find a way to ensure that the server only returns the image/file if the request actually came via my site. Is this possible? If so, how?
No, not if your site is publicly accessible. It’s not the other site that requests your image, it’s the user’s browser. The other site merely gives the browser the information it needs to request the file from your site. All you can rely on, really, is the copyright law, a notice that you intend to use it, and the willingness to actually follow through on the threat.
As far as I have gathered, (and unless someone else pops in with a different answer) Domino cannot do this.I’ll check into what servers do… maybe I can set up a secondary web server and serve the images from there…but that miught be more trouble than it is worth.