On Fri, October 6, 2006 12:44 pm, tedd wrote:
> What would be the "best" way to protect images in a directory from
> being harvested?

Tell the client that correctly linked and tagged images INCREASE
traffic because the search engines can find them and suck people in,
so hiding them is a Bad Idea. :-)

> But, is there a way to protect a directory such that an application
> such as "SightSucker" (nice program btw), can't retrieve it's
> contents, while your php script can?

But it this way:
You can erect as many barriers as you like.

Some of them will stop some automated scripts.
Many of them will stop legitimate use.
Most of them will incovenience legitimate users.
None of them will stop a determined writer of an automated script.

[irony]
I type this message as my PHP script is "surfing" to our site on IE in
the background, trying to trigger an intermittent session disappearing
bug.
[/irony]

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