anti leech using htaccess

[megacool]

I have a website where i am hosting some huge audio/video files.. which some lamers keep linking to eating my bandwidth.. I am using a PHP script to categorize the downloads.. but I need a way to protect say my downloads directory..so that it will only let a person download if they are coming from my domain.. i think there is a way to do it thru .htaccess .. any ideas?

 

[mdm]

Try:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /download-directory
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.zip$ - [F]

 

[megacool]

Originally posted by mdm
Try:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /download-directory
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.zip$ - [F]

mdm, I tried that.. I've tried a similar HTACCESS before.. doesn't work