14th December 2005, 1:18 AM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Come to think of it, by what means do they do this "leech protection" anyway? I mean, how exactly is typing the direct link to the file able to get around clicking on a link in some random forum? Does the average browser actually tell the server how it got there? Does the average browser send a signal that basically says "used a hyperlink" or "was embedded in HTML"? How silly. Such a message seems a tad risky. Shouldn't any request for a file appear exactly the same to the server? They should really just make clicking on a link send the same data to a server as typing it into the address bar. I see no logical reason to do otherwise.It's my understanding that when you click on a link the site you're linking to can see where you linked from.