OK, I'm on a slightly vengeful tear this week dealing with the infamous hot-linking problem. Here, I explained how to more gracefully handle hot-linking blogs, forums, and other sites. Then yesterday, I explained the situation to a few folks at work, and they suggested that I investigate returning a really massive and annoying animated GIF instead of a big static red square! So, I looked into it, and it turns out that I'm able to return this 5000 x 5000 pixel animated GIF at a fraction of the bandwidth it would cost me to return this PNG'ed red square. This new animated GIF alternates between red and yellow at roughly 200ms per frame. It's quite annoying, and even better, many browsers struggle to render this animated GIF given it's width and height (and it's only 36KB)!
Enough hot-linking posts, I think I finally have this problem under control.
Have a great Friday.
Enough hot-linking posts, I think I finally have this problem under control.
Have a great Friday.
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