How to Block Proxy Sites?

If someone is actually copying your SWFS to their server, then this has to be solved on the Flash side. You should be able to do this easily by setting up a crossdomain policy. This will prevent Flash movies from making HTTP requests to your server.

Know that this will prevent any flash apps from calling back to your server that aren't listed in your cross domain policy. Now just create a page on your server, it can be a text file with one word like "OK" or "SUCCESS". We just want to see if the flash app can make the request successfully.

Just use a URL request to retrieve that page. If the SWF is hosted on a server that is not listed in your crossdomain policy, the URLRequest will throw an exception.

You catch the exception and shut the game down, simple as that. You could provide a page in the flash movie that allows you to click back and run the game on your site too.

Simple solution, should take no more than a few lines of code to solve.


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thanks seniortriangulo, really appreciate your suggestion. I will see if I can make this work and I hope that more site owners will do this. It seems that there is a surge in proxy sites.

Cheers, Evert

You can stick some lines in your .htaccess file: perishablepress.com/ how-to-block-proxy-servers-via-htaccess/ (Remove space)

Why would you shut off **user traffic** just because it's tunneled through a gateway?

Baffling.

Privet Dobre Den,

The games use videos hosted on my server. Traffic is substantial (50 TB a month), for which I have to pay. There is no conversion of visitors tunneled through gateways.
Thanks for your suggestion.

Cheers
Evert

by IP ?! or IP range ?

I do not understand your question, Camsmaster