Are there any IE experts around?

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:30 pm Post subject: Are there any IE experts around?

Long story short, I now have HotLinking Protection enabled correctly.

However, clicking on a thumbnail to open up the full size image in IE, I get a "Forbidden" message in the new window; I'm not sure if anyone else does.... I know everything works fine in Chrome and Safari but not in IE.

Andrew has advised that it could be a 'Referres' setting in IE or possibly in my AV which is stopping this from working. I've looked everywhere and cannot find anything which looks like it. My AV is MS Essentials and can't find anything in there either.

Can anyone help with this, or do I need to possibly insert extra code in to my website programming to allow for IE users?

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:23 pm Post subject:

If you send me the URL I can test from IE on my laptop tomorrow.

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject:

Hi,

If you click on any of the thumbnails on my site www.ian-savage.com and if you could let me know what happens I'd greatly appreciate it.

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:05 am Post subject:

From a bit of searching, it seems the problem is indeed that IE does not send its referrer header in certain situations.

To allow blank referrers (it's recommended to do so anyway), add this to your .htaccess file just above your other rewritecond lines:

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I've added the line of code and it does allow the image popup windows to work in IE but I'm not sure if it has cancelled out the hotlinking?

Anyone want to try for me?

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:08 pm Post subject:

Pics still aren't loading from other sites - tested by pasting image url into Firebug.

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject:

David,

Many many thanks for your help, it has been greatly appreciated

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:41 pm Post subject:

Ok, confused again.....

Had a look at the Hotlink section in Cpanel and a tick had appeared in the box for "Allow direct requests (ie. entering the url to an image in your browser)"

Now I know for sure that I didn't put it in there, would the addition of the

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Hi,

That line would make that box ticked once more and allow direct connections to the image.

Andrew

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject:

Umm.... therefore I need to remove the line and find another answer?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Hi,

It would seem so. You could probably add a IE specific RewriteCond so that rule only applied to IE e.g.

NetHosted Customer Joined: 23 Jun 2009 Posts: 37

Hi Ian,

Never mind hotlinking. I just had a look at your site and noticed every directory has NO INDEX FILE inside them, so the pictures could be robbed by pure copy & paste methods even though you have a water mark on each one. I did not investigate if you had real full-sized pictures on your site but if you have they will be found with no index file (open directory in other words).

SarahP

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Ian,

You can disable the behaviour SarahP has described by using the No Indexing option for the folder(s) in question via the Index Manager in cPanel.

Thanks,

Andrew

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