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Anti-Leech Attachments - prevent hotlinking and bandwidth theft!
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Title : Anti-Leech Attachments
Version : 1.1 Coder : Jason Williams Purpose : Prevent your forum attachments from being directly linked to - prevent bandwidth abuse. Why : Bandwidth can be expensive, plus I was frustrated with one of my members linking to three video clips on my forum from his own site, effectively abusing the bandwidth I pay for, so I set about a system that stops hotlinking, but at the same time, as a courtesy, providing a dynamic link to the post containing the attachment. How : This could be replicated very easily using .htaccess but the one thing that it can't do is give you the link to the attachment itself. This mod displays a message informing the user that hotlinking is not allowed, then giving them the link to the post to view the attachment directly. Known Issues : The security can be defeated by using the drop down style menu on the Anti Leech page - this has only been confirmed as an issue on Firefox. I have unsucessfully tried to find a way of removing the drop down on that page only. Confirmed working with vBSEO 3.2.0. Important : This has been tested on 3.6.2 and 3.8, I can presume it will be compatible with 3.7.x because it works on 3.8 - as always BACKUP FIRST! Demo : http://www.steadiforum.com/attachmen...9&d=1180779148 Installation : 1. Import Product - product-antileech.xml 2. Save bandwidth! File uploads : 0 Files to Import : 1 New Templates : 1 New Phrases : 2 Uses Hooks : 1 Uses Queries : 1 History : v1.0 - Original release v1.1 - Added enable/disable option, tested on VB 3.8 Done - if you like please click install! (and click Nominate for MOTM!) Download Now Only licensed members can download files, Click Here for more information. Show Your Support
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Show Thread Enhancements Thread Content Anti-Theft | RMS-Chef | vBulletin 3.6 Template Modifications | 18 | 17 Nov 2009 19:18 |
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thanks. there is a mod like this but to do this with the images displayed in a forum? is that if someone copies the address of an image to put in another forum, this will not show any image and leave another pic in place? thanks
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#77
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hi
im install dir in the 3.8.4 and i cant not see the settings ![]()
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#78
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Originally Posted by pablete
I just copied the address and posted that pic in my forum using image tags with no problem, which is what I thought this was supposed to prevent?![]()
Not sure I understand the use of this, at all? No members have liked this post.
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#79
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Installed but its not working
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#80
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I tested it using the demo pic and hotlinked it from there, so I don't think it's just you.
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#81
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Originally Posted by hornstar1337
i second that.. please add these features
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#82
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Making people register to download attachments is a good way to benefit from hotlinking. You gain registration, hits, advertisement clicks, and sometimes good members.
Also the way to prevent the style from displaying on the attachments page is simple. Either use hooks to edit it out via a plugin or just perform a template edit and use a conditional to not display it on the attachments page. No members have liked this post.
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#83
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update for 4.0?
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#84
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Finally works after 2 hours!
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#85
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i tried this as well and its not working sites still able to leech and for the life of me I cannot find the admincp setting for this plugin
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#86
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Anyone had any luck converting this to be used on VB4? Cant go without this plugin
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#87
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this is sharp, I'll check this out sometime
/me clicks install
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#88
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Thanks ... not show in admincp > option
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#89
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Is there any way to do the opposite?
I've searched high and low for a way to get urls from: forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3846&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1295480296 to: forums/attachment/3/8/4/6/image_name.jpg Like I said, I have tried searching maybe I'm not using the best keywords but this thread/mod was the closest I get. ![]() No members have liked this post.
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#90
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It would defiantly be fantastic if this could be upgraded to work with VB4.
Does anything like this exist for VB4? No members have liked this post.
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