Hotlinking Images Sucks
April 26, 2007

So, myspace users really shouldn't be on the great Intertubes - that's all I have to say. You know what sucks? Bandwidth drains by some dweeb hotlinking your image on his myspace profile. You know what sucks more? When I redirect all image links to my site from myspace to lemonparty. Enjoy your lemonparty themed myspace profile!

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, DON'T EVEN TRY FINDING OUT.

Technical Land here we come! This is how I did it;

$HTTP["referer"] =~ "myspace\.com" {
  url.redirect = ( "^/.*\.(jpe?g|png|gif)" => "lemonparty.gif" )
}

and certainly the inclusion of mod_redirect in my lighttpd.conf.

Update: Fun has been had. The users are now redirected back to myspace's page, to waste their own bandwidth.