{"id":753,"date":"2010-09-22T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2010-09-27T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T14:28:22","slug":"fun-with-hotlink-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/what\/fun-with-hotlink-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Hotlink Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I get a lot of hotlink spam to this site, and normally I don’t particularly care. But when Mercado Libre<\/a> (an online sales forum similar to E-bay<\/a>) started using the pictures of one of the switches from my CCNA lab<\/a> for a posting – I decided I’d try my hand as a sales person.<\/p>\n

They could have at least resized the image<\/a> – but here’s a snippet of what the posting<\/a> looked like (note: since modern browsers cache imagery, you’ll likely have to hold down the shift button and hit refresh when looking at that post):<\/p>\n

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The actual switch is below the o-scope.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A few quick rewrite rules to tamper with that HTTP Referrer:<\/p>\n

RewriteEngine on<\/p>\n

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*articulo\\.mercadolibre\\.com\\.ec.*$
\nRewriteRule \\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$ hotlinkers\/computer-thermite.jpg [L]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And voila –<\/p>\n

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The perfect computer for arsonists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I hope I get a commission off the huge volume of sales this generates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I get a lot of hotlink spam to this site, and normally I don’t particularly care. But when Mercado Libre (an online sales forum similar to E-bay) started using the pictures of one of the switches from my CCNA lab for a posting – I decided I’d try my hand as a sales person. They … Continue reading Fun with Hotlink Spam<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braindeadtip","category-cisco","category-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}