[IMC-Dissent-admin] more lousy leechers

[Robert M. Meyer]

OK, I added this to atlanta's config.  Looks like the others have had 
something similar added
for them.

Let me know if there are any problems.

Cheers!

Bob

joe wrote:

>Here's what Boston has been running in its vhosts config file. The
>intent is that media are only served when referred to from the boston
>site. There were a few improvement suggestions on imc-tech, but this is
>at least a start:
>
>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://boston\.indymedia\.org [NC]
>RewriteRule (wmv|avi|mov|asf|mpg|mpeg|mp3)$ - [NC,F]
># Never serve these...
>RewriteRule (rar|zip)$ - [NC,F]
>
>On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:44:18 -0400, "Robert M. Meyer"
><rmeyer at buffaloimc.org> said:
>  
>
>>We have NO rewrite rules at the moment on dissent.  I've never played 
>>with them.  It's probably
>>a good idea to add them for the sites to stop the leechers.  
>>Unfortunately, I've only written one
>>rewrite rule in my career and couldn't competently come up with one that 
>>works without
>>experimentation...
>>
>>Do you have one handy that can be plugged in?
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>    
>>
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