very simple htaccess

[Anon]

hello,

i believe this is a very simple request, but i cannot find one anywhere that works for me.

i need an .htaccess that will prevent people from entering URL's to view graphics from a clipart search engine. all the graphics end in either jpg or gif.

i have had not had very much experience with .htaccess files. so if you could, don't assume i have a clue...thanks.

adam

[Anon]

If you protect the pictures using a .htaccess file, that means that no client can view them anymore. Not even if they are linked to them by the search engine.
You will have to find another way of displaying the graphics in the searchengine.

[Anon]

at no point do i have the graphics as a URL. they are linked through a display image kind of page. is there anyway i can make it so that only php and html files can be viewed. will this prevent my php files from calling the images?

[Anon]

Same thing, at a point in time the images are displayed to your customers,
thus they have a url in the form of <img src="image.jpg">, and therefore they can be/are linked to. That means the htaccess blocks them.

What you could do it is create a php script that will read a file and output it as a n image.
Then you could call that script from your display page, instead of linking to the images themselves.
Then you could tell that new script to only display images if the HTTP_REFERER is the display page.