Hotlink Protection in Nginx working too well in Firefox

Asked Jan 21 '12 at 13:13

Active Jan 22 '12 at 02:08

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I use hotlink protection in Nginx and it is working very well!

For some reason it is not allowing visitors to my site using Firefox to see any images.
For visitors using IE, Chrome, Safari, and Opera, it works just fine: the images show up on my site but not if you try to hotlink.

I checked Firefox on Win and on Mac and it happens in both places. Headers sent by Firefox have the same referrers as IE and the others as far as I can tell.

The hotlink protection code looks like so

location ~ \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$ {
    valid_referers server_names blocked *.mysite.com;
    if ($invalid_referer) {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ /nopeeking.png break;
    }
}

location =/visitpg.png {
    root /path/to/my/site;
}

Any ideas as to why this works in all other browsers but not in Firefox?

edited Jan 22 '12 at 02:08

voretaq7

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asked Jan 21 '12 at 13:13

Adergaard

How did you check the headers from Firefox? Can you give us the headers from a working & non-working browser? – voretaq7 Jan 22 '12 at 02:08
try adding `none` to `valid_referers` – SaveTheRbtz Jan 22 '12 at 12:06
Firefox requires adding `add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;` to your Nginx server block for cross-domain content. Old question here but this may help others. – Tom Brossman Apr 21 '14 at 09:45

Hotlink Protection in Nginx working too well in Firefox

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