stop people linking to pages

any way of stopping people linking to pages on a site ?
we have a problem with a site that has one of our pages linked in a frame,
ie the page shows on their site with no credit, just to save them some work,
preferably a php script that redirects their link to a "nice" page....

In article <MkP2b.16079$WZ5.11263@fe13.atl2.webusenet.com>,
luna@moonbasealpha.com says...
> any way of stopping people linking to pages on a site ?

No.

> we have a problem with a site that has one of our pages linked in a frame,
> ie the page shows on their site with no credit, just to save them some work,
> preferably a php script that redirects their link to a "nice" page....


Thats another matter - you can use javascript to break out of frames.

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In article <MkP2b.16079$WZ5.11263@fe13.atl2.webusenet.com>, luna_s
<luna@moonbasealpha.com> wrote:

> any way of stopping people linking to pages on a site ?
> we have a problem with a site that has one of our pages linked in a frame,
> ie the page shows on their site with no credit, just to save them some work,
> preferably a php script that redirects their link to a "nice" page....

You could write a script (or build it in using php) to dynamically
update your website to use different file names.

ie. your frame could use page12345.html one day, and then either
manually change the name so often or automate it.

This doesn't completely stop others from using your content, but it
probably will if they have to update their links daily.

"luna_s" <luna@moonbasealpha.com> wrote in message
news:MkP2b.16079$WZ5.11263@fe13.atl2.webusenet.com ...
> any way of stopping people linking to pages on a site ?
> we have a problem with a site that has one of our pages linked in a frame,
> ie the page shows on their site with no credit, just to save them some
work,
> preferably a php script that redirects their link to a "nice" page....
>
You could try this javascript and take them to another page or other action.
if (document.referrer&&document.referrer!="http://yoursite/linked.htm")
document.write('Shame on you<BR>');

If you might link from other pages you need to change
document.referrer!="http://yoursite/linked.htm" to
(document.referrer!="http://yoursite/linked.htm"||document.referrer!="http:/
/yoursite/secondlinked.htm")

luna_s wrote:
> any way of stopping people linking to pages on a site ?
> we have a problem with a site that has one of our pages linked in a
> frame, ie the page shows on their site with no credit, just to save
> them some work, preferably a php script that redirects their link to
> a "nice" page....

you could do something with the $_REFERER server variable. If it is not
from your site, then reject it (or do something else).

In article <VmU2b.270478$Ho3.32797@sccrnsc03>, "dewright"
<dewright23@hotmail.com> writes:

>"luna_s" <luna@moonbasealpha.com> wrote in message
>news:MkP2b.16079$WZ5.11263@fe13.atl2.webusenet.co m...
>> any way of stopping people linking to pages on a site ?
>> we have a problem with a site that has one of our pages linked in a frame,
>> ie the page shows on their site with no credit, just to save them some
>work,
>> preferably a php script that redirects their link to a "nice" page....
>>
>You could try this javascript and take them to another page or other action.
>if (document.referrer&&document.referrer!="http://yoursite/linked.htm")
> document.write('Shame on you
>');
>
>If you might link from other pages you need to change
>document.referrer!="http://yoursite/linked.htm" to
>(document.referrer!="http://yoursite/linked.htm"||document.referrer!="http:/
>/yoursite/secondlinked.htm")

As the document.referrer in the browser is less reliable than it is on the
server, and ~15% of browsers with it disabled, then it's not a very reliable
way to stop it.
It also prevents access to the page from Favorites. When the URL is typed in
the location bar or loaded from Favorites, there is no document.referrer, if
you add !="" to stop that, then you also stop it from being bookmarked and
returned to later.
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"Disco" <discooctopus@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:b3V2b.837$U74.49998@news.optus.net.au...
> luna_s wrote:
> > any way of stopping people linking to pages on a site ?
> > we have a problem with a site that has one of our pages linked in a
> > frame, ie the page shows on their site with no credit, just to save
> > them some work, preferably a php script that redirects their link to
> > a "nice" page....
>
> you could do something with the $_REFERER server variable. If it is not
> from your site, then reject it (or do something else).
>
heres an example, its downright rude to do this and they are also cheating
on the affiliation scheme,
http://www.gameboy-advance-roms.com/free_gba_roms.htm

"Boyd Pearson" <boyd@dont.spam.me> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:MPG.19b6a1b0bf8968f7989680@news.slingshot.co. nz...

> > we have a problem with a site that has one of our pages linked in a
frame,
> > ie the page shows on their site with no credit, just to save them some
work,
> > preferably a php script that redirects their link to a "nice" page....
>
>
> Thats another matter - you can use javascript to break out of frames.


<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
if(top != self) top.location.href="http://www.mysite.com";
// -->
</script>

If your content page resides in a frame in your site, you will have to
change the syntax accordingly (find help on that in a javascript group).
This opens your home page in the whole window which will quite annoy the
linkers. Of course, if somebody places a "good" link to your content page
their users will get annoyed, too, because they are pointed to a content of
their interest and get the home page instead. So you could also say
top.location.href=self.location.href to deliver the content page in the top
frame instead of the home page.

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Here's an idea:

Say you want PageB only accessibly if accessed from PageA. Well, in PageA,
set a session variable like $_SESSION["aok"] = 1;

Then, in PageB, put an if statement at the top like this:

<?
if ($_SESSION["aok"] != 1)
die ("You linked here from an unauthorized page");
?>


"luna_s" <luna@moonbasealpha.com> wrote in message
news:MkP2b.16079$WZ5.11263@fe13.atl2.webusenet.com ...
> any way of stopping people linking to pages on a site ?
> we have a problem with a site that has one of our pages linked in a frame,
> ie the page shows on their site with no credit, just to save them some
work,
> preferably a php script that redirects their link to a "nice" page....
>
>
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