That's different, he's talking about when people hotlink from their own web-page. In that case the referrer will be different and you'll get an error message instead.
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Alessio Sangalli <alesan@...> wrote:
>
> On 05/04/2011 03:23 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
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> > from ∗.jpg files, inserts the thumbnails, etc. Lets me post ∗.html but
> > still let the server stop people from linking directly to my images from
> > their web pages.
>
> I do not understand :) what if I simply use this URL:
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> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/tmp/grizzly-shear.jpg
>
> bye
> as
>