How to prevent image hotlink from your ASP.NET site?

Question

What is the best/simplest way to prevent people hotlinking to images from my hosted ASP.NET website? I don\'t need to prevent all images/resources from hotlinking, I just want t

Answer 1

You could refuse any requests for images that don't have your site in the HTTP referer header field. That's the theory. In order to control requests in your application, you'd have to stream all images through an ASP page (as opposed to linking to them directly).