LinkDeny

Unscrupulous site owners may link to your content directly and literally steal your bandwidth. This theft is commonly called leeching, hotlinking, inline linking, or bandwidth theft, and such direct linking to your valuable image, video, binary files or other important site content is typically done without your knowledge, let alone your permission! Now, with LinkDeny, you can fight back and control access to your Web site or Web-based application content and to ensure that your bandwidth use is for your site users only -- keeping out all types of "bad" traffic. LinkDeny's powerful access control features allow you to transparently stop bandwidth pirates and potential hackers in their tracks by limiting their access via a Web request's: IP address Referring URL Country or geographic location Demographics Length of user session Type of Web browser Existence of cookie HTTP request header type and content The flexible, rules-based system allows you to dream up just about any method to allow or deny access to content resources, making LinkDeny a powerful security tool for Microsoft IIS Web site administrators and management. Whether you implement your own rules or use any of the dozens of predefined access templates, LinkDeny addresses all sorts of common site problems from simple security to traffic management. For example, LinkDeny technology has been successfully used to protect against country level and targeted site attacks, control references from troubling posts or Blog mentions (or any site), limit traffic overloads from social networking and other leeching site posts, minimize affiliate system fraud, and stop pesky users abusing comment and message board systems. You'll be able to control your site traffic with confidence with LinkDeny. Detailed logging and a built-in testing interface insures that you don't block good traffic. An XML-formatted rules engine makes for easy integration of LinkDeny into existing site backends and content management systems. Implemented as a solid and fast ISAPI filter, LinkDeny will give you more control with very little performance impact. Get in control of your content and bandwidth access with LinkDeny today!