Advanced Access Controls for IIS Web Servers Prevent Hotlinking and Bandwidth Theft
Control access to your Web site content; ensure your bandwidth is available only to your users. The flexible, rules-based system allows you to use a wide variety of criteria to deny access to content resources, making LinkDeny a powerful security tool for Microsoft IIS Web site administrators.
An XML-formatted rules engine makes integration of LinkDeny into existing site backends and content management systems hassle-free. Detailed logging and a built-in testing interface ensure you don't block good traffic.
- Control access to proprietary, paid, or copyrighted files
- Help reduce affiliate fraud by ensuring legitimate referrals
- Block country-level and targeted site attacks with linkDeny's GeoIP database
- Control user experience by redirecting dead links for better SEO management
- Fully understand your leeching and access problems with intelligent logging
Pricing
Free 30-Day Trial Download
Single Server License (Unlimited Domains) $199.95
Over Three (3) Servers / Site License Packs - Get a quote
Related Information
- About Access Controls and LinkDeny
- Wikipedia Definition of Inline Linking (Hotlinking)
- LinkDeny Evaluation Guide
Support and Upgrades
- Free support
- Free updates, major version upgrade fee of 35% (learn more)
- Request a quote for your major version upgrade discount
Features
- LinkDeny's powerful access controls can block downloads of your content based on requestor's:
- IP address
- Referring URL
- Country or geographic location
- Length of user session
- Type of Web browser
- Existence of cookie
- HTTP request header type and content
Rules-based System
Rules-based system for transparently controlling site access over any HTTP/HTTPS connection to a Microsoft IIS Web server:
- Allow or Deny access to specific URL paths or MIME types of files (wildcards and regular expressions supported) requested by a browser or proxy server based on pre-configured criteria:
- By Referer URL, domain or host name (the URL from which a request is made)
- By User-agent type (browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox (Mozilla/5.0), search engine robots like Googlebot, etc.)
- By IP address (by single IP address, a range of IP addresses or the IP addresses of specific countries by a geographic IP address database integrated from Port80 Software partner MaxMind - learn more about included 97% accurate database or optional 99% accurate database upgrade)
- By HTTP request headers standards conformance (the presence of specific text in request headers)
- By user session (allowed time for URL access, managed by URL or cookie flag and mask)
- Full control of LinkDeny site requests and responses, including:
- Log and take no action (by default on installation)
- Redirect request to a specific URL on your site or any site
- Replace response with a particular file (image, HTML, etc.)
- Replace response with 404 HTTP server error message
XML-based Rule Templates
XML-based Rule Templates provide ready-to-deploy anti-leeching and access control rules; dozens of access control templates provided, including
- Templates to Allow or Deny a request based on geographic IP data:
- Any specific country
- More than two dozen continental and regional rule templates (North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, etc.)
- Rule templates by demographic information:
- Top Countries with Most Internet Users
- Top Countries with Longest Surfing Internet Users
- Top Countries with High Risk for Hacking or Fraud
- Top Countries with High Risk for Phishing Attacks
- English Speaking Countries
- Miscellaneous country affiliation rule templates:
- European Union (EU)
- World Trade Organization (WTO) Countries
- U.S. Embargoed Countries
- Templates to Allow or Deny a request based on the request's referring site:
- Content Leeching Sites rule templates:
- Top Blog Hosts (Blogspot, LiveJournal, etc.)
- Top Social Networking Sites (MySpace, etc.)
- Top Auction Sites (eBay, etc.)
- Top Anonymous Surfing Sites (Proxify, The-Cloak, etc.)
- Other Major Internet Sites rule templates:
- Top Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, etc.)
- Top News Sites - General (NYTimes, Slate etc.)
- Top News Sites - Local and TV (NYPost, Telemundo, etc.)
- Top News Sites - Financial (SmartMoney, Bloomberg, etc.)
- Top News Sites - Tech (Slashdot, InfoWorld, etc.)
- Top Internet Portals (MSN, Amazon, etc.)
- Content Leeching Sites rule templates:
- Templates to Allow or Deny a request based on best practice security policies:
- Allow common Web browsers only rule template
- Deny images or video without user-agent header present rule template
- Deny image or video without referrer present rule template
Full logging functionality intercepted requests and LinkDeny actions
- Transparent logging only mode (by default)
- Logs available in text files for review
LinkDeny rule testing utility
LinkDeny rule testing utility to validate rules and insure proper anti-leeching and access control rules
Import/export settings
Import/export settings for migration and server-farm deployments
Multiple management interface options
- Easy to use GUI management interface
- Direct XML rule file editing
No server bounce required
- No restart on install
- No service interrupt on settings change
Supports servers and web farms
Supports single IIS Web server or IIS Web farms
Implementation
Implemented as super-fast ISAPI filter
Compatible with multiple server environments
Compatible with ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP and most JSP application server environments
- Simple to install/uninstall
System Requirements
- OS: Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 or Server 2000 with SP4
- Hardware: x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit)
- Note: IIS 7 / Windows Server 2008 not yet supported (sign up for the IIS 7 Beta Alert)
The following runtimes are also required but can be installed by the LinkDeny installer if not already present on the target system:
- .Net 2.0 (or higher)
- Visual C++ 2005 SP1

Starting at $199.95

