stuart
Chevereto Member
Hi Guys,
I did a bit of research into direct image downloading and while I don't mind people downloading the images I don't want people sending traffic directly to my images as this wastes my bandwidth and I get no advertising revenue!
The solution was to add the following to my .htaccess file within my root directory:
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$" >
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header add Content-Disposition "attachment"
</FilesMatch>
What this does is still allows your local site to embed images but if anyone trys to visit the image directly in /images/imagename.jpg it forces them to download it with a standard download box 🙂
Problem solved and no script editing required!
I did a bit of research into direct image downloading and while I don't mind people downloading the images I don't want people sending traffic directly to my images as this wastes my bandwidth and I get no advertising revenue!
The solution was to add the following to my .htaccess file within my root directory:
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$" >
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header add Content-Disposition "attachment"
</FilesMatch>
What this does is still allows your local site to embed images but if anyone trys to visit the image directly in /images/imagename.jpg it forces them to download it with a standard download box 🙂
Problem solved and no script editing required!