Overview

The Live service provides referer validation and URL validation to identify and filter out malicious visitors. Only visitors that meet the rules can use the Live service.

URL validation protects live resources from unauthorized download and theft. Referer validation uses referer blacklists/whitelists to prevent hotlinking. However, because the referer content can be forged, referer validation cannot well protect live resources. Therefore, you are advised to use URL validation. Table 1 shows the authentication mechanism of the Live service.

Table 1 Authentication mechanism

Function

Description

Configuration

Referer validation

You can configure the referer blacklist and whitelist to identify and filter out malicious visitors.

For details, see Referer Validation.

URL validation

You can configure a key and validate the URL to protect live resources.

For details, see URL Validation.