How does photobucket know if an image is being hotlinked vs whether it is being requested to show in a page on its own site?...
I thought this was done via a 'referrer' HTTP header. Right?
So could you 'spoof' this header? You would require the website's (i.e. the one that wants to display the image) and/or possibly even the browser's, co-operation - but if I am requesting any images from photobucket, I set the referrer header to photobucket, would it serve up the image? Would it require the browser's co-operation, or just the site's?
What if you just request the image on its own - say by pasting its URL (ending in .jpg) into the address bar, or using curl?