My anti-Hot Linking measures broken?

For several years now I’ve had a couple of PERL/CGI scripts protecting my images from hot linking and subsequent bandwidth theft.

If somebody attempts to load a protected image on a domain I haven’t authorised using a link to the image this is loaded instead:


I should also see the referring URL here:
https://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/bandits.log

I noticed a few days ago, after editing bandits.log, which I do occasionally to prevent it growing very large, that there are no new entries.

I haven’t made any changes to the scripts so I’m wondering if it’s a server issue?

I tested by posting an image URL on my own domain and it does show https://ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/bandit2.gif instead of the actual image, but there’s no entry on it on https://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/bandits.log

Any help would be appreciated.

@freax We’ll generate a ticket on your behalf in which we can discuss details of your site to get this issue resolved.

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Thanks for your email.
The issue is now resolved.