Scenario

You can use the hotlink protection feature to configure a referer trustlist, preventing ZOS data from being hotlinked and incurring additional costs.

Restriction and Limitations

Referer configuration guide:

In the Referer text box, enter the domain name and IP address. Wildcard characters (*) and question marks (?) are supported. Enter multiple referers on separate lines.
Toggle the switch to specify whether to allow empty referers.
Empty referers indicate that HTTP or HTTPS requests lack the referer field or have an empty referer.
If empty referers are not allowed, only HTTP or HTTPS requests containing the referer field can access ZOS resources.

On the homepage of the official eSurfing Cloud website, click Console , and enter your username and password to log in to the console.
In the upper part of the console, click and select a region. In this example, Asia Pacific-China (Hong Kong 2) is selected.
Choose Storage > Zettabyte Object Storage .
In the ZOS console, click the bucket name to open the overview page.
Click the Permission Management tab, and click Setting in the Hotlink Protection section.
On the hotlink setting page, configure parameters and save the configuration.

Parameter	Description
Referer	Specify the referers allowed to access ZOS resources. A referer includes the domain name and IP address. Wildcard characters (*) and question marks (?) are supported. Enter multiple referers on separate lines.
Empty Referer	Toggle the switch to specify whether to allow empty referers. Enabling this option allows requests without referers, while disabling it permits only requests with referers.

Description

You can navigate to the Permission Management page through the Overview page > Basic Setting > Hotlink Protection .