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Inline linking (also known as hotlinking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking, offsite image grabs and bandwidth theft) is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site into a web page belonging to a second site. more...
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The second site is said to have an inline link to the site where the object is located.
Inline Linking and the HTTP Protocol
The technology behind the World Wide Web, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), does not make any distinction of types of links—all links are functionally equal. Resources may be located on any server at any location.
When a web site is visited, the browser first downloads the textual content in the form of an HTML document. The downloaded HTML document may call for other HTML and/or stylesheet files to be processed. These files may contain <img> tags which supply the URLs that allows images to display on the page. The HTML code generally does not specify a server, meaning that the web browser should use the same server as the parent code (<img src=\"picture.jpg\" />). It also permits absolute URLs that refer to images hosted on other servers (<img src=\").
When a browser downloads an HTML page containing such an image, the browser will contact the remote server to request the image content.
Common uses of linked content
The ability to display content from one site within another is part of the original design of the Web's hypertext medium. Commonly accepted uses include:
Web architects may deliberately segregate the images of a site on one server or a group of servers. Hosting images on separate servers allows the site to divide the bandwidth requirements between servers. As an example, the high-volume site Slashdot stores its \"front page\" at slashdot.org; individual stories on servers such as games.slashdot.org or it.slashdot.org; and serves images for each host from images.slashdot.org.;
Many web pages include banner ads. Banner ads are images hosted by a company that acts as middleman between the advertisers and the web sites on which the ads appear. The <img> tag may specify an URL to a CGI script on the ad server, including a string uniquely identifying the site producing the traffic, and possibly other information about the person viewing the ad, previously collected and associated with a cookie. The CGI script determines which image to send in response to the request.;
Hit counters show how many times a page has been loaded. Several companies provide hit counters that are maintained off site and displayed with an inline link.;
Controversial uses of inline linking
The blurring of boundaries between sites can lead to other problems when the site violates users' expectations. Other times, inline linking can be done for malicious purposes.
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