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Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators

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Line 1: {{~~trope~~Useful Notes\|wppage=Inline linking}} [[File:nohots.png\|frame\|You heard the image. Don't do it.]] An item on one web-service that is requested by another web-service, usually an image. This isn't when an image is actually a [[pothole]]d link; their image is displayed inline as part of your web page. This is not only impolite (it eats up your victim's bandwidth), it's almost always a really bad idea. A '''Hot Linked''' item may have been removed by the original host (this is a big problem with [[YouTube]] links). The original host can be undergoing a performance problem. The original host may have changed its linking policy. The original host may be ''gone.'' The original host may have substituted a ''different'' (and often obscene) image for the one at that URL ... The list of possible badness goes on and on. On the other hand, hotlinking has one advantage over making and posting a copy of the image: you're not breaking copyright law by copying the image, you're simply providing a pointer to the original. For some people, that's justification enough to hotlink. Web forums are particularly bad for encouraging users to hotlink images from other sites (and restricting the ability users to edit their own posts later). It's not uncommon for a victim's site (such as the [[Uncyclopedia]] Babble Project at the peak of the Great Recession in 2008-09) to incur $100/month or more in additional hosting costs due to the resulting bandwidth overages. That's the point at which a [[Bastard Operator From Hell]] may well be tempted to have the webserver check the [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/access.html "Referer:"] (sic) headers on requests and return a picture of the system administrator's backside (or worse) in place of the hotlinked images.▼ ▲Web forums are particularly bad for encouraging users to hotlink images from other sites (and restricting ~~the~~users' ability ~~users~~ to edit their own posts later). It's not uncommon for a victim's site (such as the [[Uncyclopedia]] Babble Project at ~~the~~its peak ~~of the Great Recession~~ in 2008-09) to incur $100/month or more in additional hosting costs due to the resulting bandwidth overages. That's the point at which a [[Bastard Operator From Hell]] may ~~well~~ be tempted to [[Hotlinked Image Switch\|have the webserver check]] the [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/access.html "Referer:"] (sic) headers on requests and return a picture of the system administrator's backside ([[Shock Site\|or worse]]) in place of the hotlinked images. {{reflist}} [[Category:Wiki Tropes]] [[Category:~~Hot Linked~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]