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.