I know you asked how to PREVENT it. I wrote a little pieces on how to get around it. You might want to just take a look at it. It might help you figure out how to prevent it. Kind of like asking people to break into your bank to see if your security is good:
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/134-Ask-Ben-CFHttp-For-Web-Mining-And-Image -Hot-Linking.htm ...................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer www.bennadel.com -----Original Message----- From: Matt Quackenbush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 3:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: image scraping on ebay I know this question has already been properly answered, but I thought I'd just pass along this link which will walk you thru implementing the technique, should you need it :-) http://tutorial99.easycfm.com/ On 9/22/06, Michael E. Carluen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With cfcontent, the link to the image will be something like > src="myimage.cfm?id-10". In which case, myimage.cfm holds the > cfcontent tag and perhaps prompt to login. When ebay folks try to > link to the image src, they just get prompted to a login page. > > Hth. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chad Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:17 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: image scraping on ebay > > > > Any way to keep people from scraping images off of a web site? > > > > A client is having all kinds of problems with ebay people linking to > their > > images. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253915 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4