How does one prevent hotlinking of swf files from an Amazon S3 file system? Flash files don't send http referrers, so I've tried to set a bucket policy that restricts to certain referrers at Amazon, but no luck.
And this typical anti-hotlinking .htaccess at my server doesn't work:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$ mysite.com/goaway.jpg [NC,R,L]
.htaccess and mod_rewrite does work OK for other things, like WordPress permalinks, so I don't think it's a shared hosting-wide problem with mod_rewrite.
Does the URL I'm using in the flash embed matter?: http://mybucketname.s3.amazonaws.com
