We have a number of sites linking directly to graphics on some of our specialty pages. The normal URL forbidden by referer works well, though they have begun to snatch graphics from another sub-site on another server. It just so happens that the server they are snatching graphics from also serves banners and graphics to other sites.
Since they've been such a pain to us I'd like to be more of a pain back to the services thieves, is there a way using the normal script:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.info-galaxy.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.gif$ - [F]
to redirect these requests to another file (e.g. imathief.gif or imathief.wav) ?
My understanding of the text was to use a RewriteMap, though this didn't work then I tried :
RewriteRule ^*.gif$ /home/www/imathief.gif [R]
which didn't work either.
Now-a-days I'm more into poetic justice than chasing twits. Any help would be appreciated.