Is this a bandwith theif?

[Mandi]

Thanks for the clue in on the intranet . . . I know what they are, but it didn't occur to me that they could be a "referrer" -

I wonder if an intranet can access my graphics, for example . . . or if that is just someone's localnet, and one of my frequent visitors is simply using a local link to jump to my site each visit?

[Terra]

Here is a good article on preventing BandWidth theft that does not require the complexity of mod_rewrite...

http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-06-14-002-01-PS

Let me know if it works out for you...[nbsp][nbsp]:)

--
Terra
--mod_rewrite, as a tool, was overkill for this type of work--
FutureQuest

[Mandi]

I have this strange link in my referrer stats:[nbsp][nbsp]http://files.webshots.com/pub/webshots/collections/webshots-valent3.exe

What the heck is that?[nbsp][nbsp]Yes, obviously *something* executable and downloadable . . . but I am so not associated with this, and I am troubled.[nbsp][nbsp]17 requests the first two days of Feb.

I'm going bandwith hunting . . . . seems I've had a good news/bad news rise in January traffic.[nbsp][nbsp]Can we say, computers for Christmas??

[Mandi]

How about this one?[nbsp][nbsp]http://riweb2/clientmatter/ - that's a straight copy/paste . . . but it isn't a valid address, of course . . . "cannot locate server" error.

How can something that doesn't exist, make 42 requests in 2 days??

[PaulKroll]

http://riweb2/clientmatter/ can certainly exist.. as an intranet. That's fine for the internal network, but means riweb2 can't be "seen" by the outside world.

That other one, well, take a look at http://www.webshots.com

Dunno what exactly is going on, from pretty innocent to outright theft of images, but you might wanna contact webshots and/or check out the other forum entries here on bandwidth theft. :(

[YFS200]

Something like http://riweb2/clientmatter/ is a local address. I have a few of them at home. Mostly my local web pages. It will show up in my FQ stats when I have a link on my local page that goes to my FQ page.

You can download your log files and do a little digging to see what's going on. But I bet ya it's just a link.

As for the webshots address. Could be someones home page. But a better look at your logs would be required.

YFS200