Hotlinking Images Tutorial.

Heys guys.....I wanted to know how to hotlink images....A detailed tutorial/example would be awsome.

Umm find an image you like. Right-click, properties. Copy image location. Write your post or whatever & paste in the image location in the appropriate tag (img). That's pretty much it. The image will be shown on your site, but is actually being served from the other site. Just be aware, that many webmasters (myself included sometimes) add htaccess rules to change images when they are hotlinked.

Several years ago, a local private school had hotlinked an image off one of my sites and even after I contacted them refused to change it. Hell I even offered to email them the file. A quick rule change later (I love apache!) everyone who loaded their page got a picture of the goatse.cx guy (google it) instead of their logo. It took about 3 hours before I got a phone call from the dean threating to sue me because in the words of their "computer guy" I had hacked their site. He calmed down once I told him about the previous email exchanges and told him he was welcome to sue but to expect a counter suit for theft of my IP & bandwidth charges.

How the hell did this thread get 23 thousand views in one day? Something`s not right here.

Noticed that too... may be ranking for some popular term?

aliskorn said:

How the hell did this thread get 23 thousand views in one day? Something`s not right here.

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Weird, I see it's #1 in google under "Hotlinking Images Tutorial"
but was indexed only 1 hour ago but right now have 28,803 views !!

It now has 34 thousand views. Wtf is going on?

well if 23 thousand people want an tut someone should make one they will all be saying
go name here go its you birthday lol
i came here seeing why there was 23k worth of views lol

are you trying to be funny were trying to wait for a good tutorial and your not giving please donate

Would be nice if someone actually made the tutorial
Hope someone will care to share.

:thanks: