Linking Line

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Linking Line

Inline linking is the placing of a linked object, often an image, from one site into a web page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the site where the object is located. Inline linking is also known as hotlinking, leeching, direct linking or bandwidth theft.
Web browsers do not distinguish between a HTML reference for an image on the same server and one on a different server even if it is entirely located on a different site. Both links would be written with the same HTML "tag".
When a web site is visited, the browser first downloads the textual content in the form of an HTML document. The downloaded HTML document may call for other HTML and/or stylesheet files to be processed. These files may contain tags which supply the URLs that allows images to display on the page. Normally, these are "relative" URLs that refer to images on the same server.

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