Is hot linking alowed

[digitalfarm]

I want to knowthat ishot linking allowed.
or how can I turn it off?

 

[limelight]

Hot linking to what? Do you mean hosting a picture on your host then posting that picture on a forum. Then yes, I'm sure this isn't like Angelfire or anything like that.

 

[chaganlal1]

There is an option in c=panel that turns hotlinking off.

 

[oab]

yea there is a thing in cpanel about it i just saw it the other day, allows you to specify which files you want to be able to be hotlinked to, i think the default is off though.. And im not quite sure if corey would like it if you hosted a 100mb file and submitted a link to a very popular site. lol

 

[n4tec]

what do you want to hotlink? I am not really sure if it accepted here but read quote below ....

"Hotlinking" (also called "hot linking", "leeching", and "bandwidth theft") is a term referring to when a web page of one website owner is direct linking to the images or other multimedia files on the web host of another website owner (usually without permission, thus stealing bandwidth). This not only causes the other person to pay for the bandwidth of the hotlinked file, but often is intellectual property theft. The term is also used loosely (a misnomer) by free image hosts which allow you to store images on their server and allow you to direct link the hosted image files on forums or other websites (sometimes altering the image to have a watermark). One of the most common occurrences of "hot linking" is when people are forum posting and they hotlink pictures from another website to use as avatars or signature images on the messageboards (forums). Some disadvantages of hot linking worth considering are that the webpage generally loads slower when you link to images stored on a different web hosting server than the webpage is hosted on, and the owner of the image has full control to disable hotlinking, or delete, rename, or worse yet, do a "switcheroo" (i.e., switching the file name to be another image which is sure to cause the hotlinker embarrassment) of the hot-linked image. Common methods of preventing hotlinking are by using an .htaccess file, using the "Hotlink Protection" offered in control panels such as Cpanel, or simply renaming image files periodically.

 

[digitalfarm]

I mean thing like images and files.But i got my question answered.