From c8059eae039c53a3d06d476536a725cb9171161d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amos Ng <amosng1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 04:11:44 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecated `Referer` checking for hotlink prevention in
 favour of token verification system

---
 CHANGELOG.md                                     | 1 +
 src/main/kotlin/mdnet/base/server/ImageServer.kt | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ae3f97a..492cfbb 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - [2020-07-04] Changed GitLab CI to build on every push irregardless of tagging by [@carbotaniuman].
 
 ### Deprecated
+- [2020-07-05] Deprecated `Referer` checking for hotlink prevention in favour of token verification system by [@lflare].
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/mdnet/base/server/ImageServer.kt b/src/main/kotlin/mdnet/base/server/ImageServer.kt
index fd2b0ef..0e239ef 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/mdnet/base/server/ImageServer.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/mdnet/base/server/ImageServer.kt
@@ -135,10 +135,7 @@ class ImageServer(
                 }
             }
 
-            if (request.header("Referer")?.startsWith("https://mangadex.org") == false) {
-                snapshot?.close()
-                Response(Status.FORBIDDEN)
-            } else if (snapshot != null && imageDatum != null) {
+            if (snapshot != null && imageDatum != null) {
                 request.handleCacheHit(sanitizedUri, getRc4(rc4Bytes), snapshot, imageDatum)
             } else {
                 if (snapshot != null) {