Apache Server configuration support - RewriteCond using HTTP

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RewriteCond using HTTP_REFERER does not work for some users

Jan Harder

2004-04-27, 2:33 pm

Hello,

I'm trying to protect some images against leeching and used the
following configuration in httpd.conf in a virtual server context:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*mydomain.(de|com).*
RewriteRule .*/path/to/images.* - [F]

It works fine on some computers, but on some machines it always sends
out the 403, even if the referer is correkt (matches mydomain.(de|com)).

All Computers I tested with use IE6 and send correct referers. Any idea
what could be wrong?

Jan Harder