Re: Apache Redirects to stop linking from other domains not working

Just for FYI, everything I read tells me that using the mod-rewrite for
apache can be hit and miss with PDF files due to the way browsers handle
the plugin to view them. sometimes the referrer value doesn't work, which
is what I'm running into. Most solutions point to a server streamed
document instead of a link to one, of which I've no idea how to code to
serve a PDF. If anyone can point a direction for that I'd be most grateful.

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Regards,
Joe W Holt
Sr Programmer/Developer
Jack Onofrio Dog Shows, LLC
405.427.8181



From: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"
<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/12/2018 03:08 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Apache Redirects to stop linking from other
domains not working
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Joe,

have you tried asking on stack overflow? There are many more Apache gurus
there than on this list I'm sure. Most of the directives/settings are
universal across platforms.

Just a thought.

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Joe W Holt <joe.holt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok, no replies but I want to offer a bit more. Perhaps it has to do with
the browser referrer value. When tested in old IE it works great. When
tested with the current Firefox version it doesn't work and the PDF
renders. Anyone know how to test what Firefox does different? The logs
don't show any difference in the values.

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Regards,
Joe W Holt
Sr Programmer/Developer
Jack Onofrio Dog Shows, LLC
405.427.8181



From: "Joe W Holt" <joe.holt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/11/2018 03:10 PM
Subject: [WEB400] Apache Redirects to stop linking from other
domains
not working
Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>





Little bit at my wits end on this. I've tried so many different

variations

of the redirect code but still can't get the server to halt serving PDF
files from other domains linking to them.

Here is my latest:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?ourdomain\.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(www\.)?ourdomain\.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(bmp|tif|gif|jpg|jpeg|jpe|png|pdf)$
https://www.ourdomain.com [R]

I was really just trying to stop two domains from linking to our pdfs but
that code didn't work either so I figured I'd try all domains. I don't
really care about the graphics, just the pdfs, but I left the code in

place

from another example I followed.
If anyone could point me to what stops this from working or show how to
stop just a couple of domains that would be great. All code I find
references image linking but I figured a file is a file. Am I incorrect?

***
Regards,
Joe W Holt
Sr Programmer/Developer
Jack Onofrio Dog Shows, LLC
405.427.8181
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