Hi all! I'm new on this forum and I registered because I have a question, and can't find help with it, so I post it here. On my website, I activated Hotlink protection, so I made a .htaccess file, with this content: [code]RewriteEngine On # With this line we assure that it will filter only pics RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*jpe?g$|.*gif$|.*png$ [NC] # Allow blank referrer RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ # Only allow linking from mydomain.com RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain\.com/ [NC] # If it isn't my domain, display a beautiful 403 error. RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ - [F][/code] Well, for external links it works fine: No site can set an <img> reference to a pic on my website. But... my problem is that I would like to disallow also direct links to pics on my website. I mean, for example, placing a direct URL in the browser to a pic on my domain. Shouldn't this .htaccess I've just posted also block this tries? Because it doesn't. Am I doing something wrong? What should I add to block these accessed too? Thanks a lot for any help! :D