Mike Volodarsky on web server infrastructure, IIS, ASP.NET, and other such animals
Many web sites suffer from others directly linking to their image, video and other content. This practice is called often called leeching, hot-linking, or inline-linking and causes wasted bandwidth and increased server load to the victim web site.
Last weekend, I wrote a little ASP.NET module that prevents hot linking. It can be used on IIS5 (Windows 2000/XP), IIS6 (Windows Server 2003), and IIS7 (Windows Vista / Longhorn Server).
It was also a great excuse to talk about the history of ASP.NET and IIS integration :)
Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/11/10/stopping-hotlinking-with-iis-and-aspnet.aspx.
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About mvolo
I am a Program Manager on the IIS Application Server team. I've been working on Microsoft's web server platform for over 3 years, first as the ASP.NET core PM on ASP.NET 2.0 and now as the core server PM on the new IIS7 server. Some of my other projects include the AppCmd command line tool, and the FastCGI support. To read more about the news and technology from the core of the Microsoft's web platform, check out my blog at http://www.mvolo.com.
