Re: IIS logs, repeated hits to a car picture? [interesting story!]

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From: Dave (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 04/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:37:51 -0000

activeworld appears to be a 3d interactive chat room type of operation.
someone has probably latched onto your picture for some part of their
environment so everytime they get visited or enter the particular room your
image gets hit. if you don't mind them using your image just leave it...
personally i would replace it with something funny and tell them to 'ask
before linking to my image'... as such things can get out of control and
cause extra traffic on your server for totally unrelated activities.

"David Sworder" <gilGrissom@CSILasVegas.com> wrote in message
news:uJFWnF8HEHA.520@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Log the referer, and you will see where everyone is coming. They are
> > probably hotlinking the image on a webpage, and that is why you get so
> many
> > hits.
> >
>
> Aha, brilliant! I didn't realize that IIS could do such a thing. Ok, take
a
> look at this referring page:
>
> aw://81.137.226.230:5670/hangout
>
> the protocol is "aw" instead of "http"... and the port# is 5670... ?
>
>