Prevent image access...

Hi,

I want to be able to prevent users from viewing images on my webserver (IIS6) using direct URLs e.g. www.mysite.com/img/treehugger.jpg should not be accesible.

Now, I have read about various methods to prevent hot-linking  etc etc.

One of which involves setting wildcard in IIS6 and redirecting every request to ASP.

However, I found that when I do this I cannot then redirect the user to the image after checking (referr check etc) because asp is handling it (loop scenario?).

Anyway, my set up is as follows:

1) I have a few web app directories which use images from my img (image) directory. The image directory is a virtual mapping to a folder on harddisk and it sits in the root along with web apps which need to access the images.

2) IIS version is 6 (upgrade I know, i know!)

I can think of two ways:

Is it possible to set up so that....

Any attempt to access www.mysite.com/img/treehugger.jpg would redirect to another page which checks for cookie, if cookie present then display image otherwise block.

thanks for your help.


KS