url rewriting

programming practices

URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs

As a software developer, you may be familiar with the DRY principle: don't repeat yourself. It's absolute bedrock in software engineering, and it's covered beautifully in The Pragmatic Programmer, and even more succinctly in this brief IEEE software article (pdf). If you haven'

By Jeff Atwood ·
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security

Blocking Image Bandwidth Theft with URL Rewriting

I like to periodically watch the HTTP traffic on my server. I can see what I'm actually serving up over the wire, and how much bandwidth I'm using. That's how I noticed that I've become somewhat popular with direct-link image bandwidth thieves.

By Jeff Atwood ·
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