Preventing hotlinking

EverythingEverywhereEverythingEverywhere Registered Users Posts: 91 Big grins
edited October 11, 2009 in SmugMug Support
There are several sites which are hot linking my images directly from my smugmug site.

Is there anyway I can block them by modifying the .htaccess file like I could if I was self-hosting the images?

Ideally I'd like to white list some sites to use my images and blacklist the rest of the world.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2009
    Sorry, all or nothing - by using 'external links set to off' in gallery customizing.
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  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2009
    If you really need a few sites to be able to do external linking, you can make a copy of the relevant images into an unlisted gallery that allows external linking while your public gallery doesn't allow it. This will keep anyone who browses your website from doing external linking. You can then set up the external links yourself from the unlisted gallery. Of course, anyone who copies those external links can link to them, but at least they can't link to the things they find on your site.
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