Inline linking

Hotlinking or inline linking referred to embed media into a web page that is stored on a different host than the page containing it. Often it is used in medium images, but also referencing of sound, video, text or JavaScript files is common.

Except in the case of framing used ( see below) the main page of a website is Hotlinking always a form of Deep Links dar.

Hotlinking as undesirable use

The creator of a website can use hotlinking, to relieve his own website offering host of traffic. It is not immediately apparent to the viewer of the page that a medium has been incorporated by a foreign host. In addition to reducing the data traffic and storage space for the integrated media is saved.

The foreign host provides visitors with the referring page and so therefore has additional traffic. When this happens against the will of the owner of the foreign hosts, we speak of traffic theft, traffic Klau or leeching. There are several ways in which a Web server or a Web application can prevent hotlinking. A popular methods is to query the HTTP referrer, the mitsendet the web browser on a site visitor. However, this can also visitors who are referred to a website via conventional hyperlinks and visitors, turn off the referrer will be prevented from retrieving the linked medium.

Hotlinking as a service

Upload databases such as YouTube or Google Video offer free hotlinking explicitly as a service. The mass distribution embedded video on all possible sides heard here on the business model; the disadvantage of increased traffic is thereby taken by the provider in purchasing. Since usually a flash player is used for the representation, the supplier here has much wider possibilities to use him made ​​available image area on the side of the including for their own economic purposes. Einbinder and providers, therefore, draw both a benefit from this approach.

The technique

In the HTML source code of a website referenced media can be integrated in several ways by foreign host.

Frames and iframes allow third-party sites and therefore any type of media, which are present on these pages incorporate. This is done using the src attribute of the HTML elements and