Did you possibly mean hotline?
Definitions
Etymologies
- hot + link (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I need the script to 'hotlink' the myspace images if this is easier / just as easy as saving the myspace images to my server”
“January 21st, 2009 at 12: 54 pm dammit, hotlink FAIL here it is:”
“Is it that much faster to have the links “spelled out” rather than clicking through a hotlink and copying the URL from the browser?”
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“You can quote, steal, plagiarize, or hotlink anything you want.”
“I don't want to hotlink him, but it's worth heading over for a listen.”
“I can't believe no one has seen that and fixed it so that it not automatically a hotlink.”
“Because of the @ sign, Internet browsers hotlink it as an email address, but it isn't.”
“I know it's funny and all, but why not hotlink every mention of his name to the WPP Group website, for example?”
“Hit the hotlink on my name to get to the rundown of the most recent past competitions ...”
“Palm says the Pixi will have a separate Facebook application on its the desktop instead of the Web hotlink Pre users have now.”
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asativum I imagine it has something to do with hot in the sense of live, like an electric circuit can be hot. In other words, click it and something happens, you're linked to other information. By contrast, in the cold, dead world of print, a "link" (or citation) does nothing; you have to do the work.
Then again, it could be that someone realized something like 99% of all Web traffic would shortly be porn, and so they thought it would improve their search-engine scores to use "hot". Then the opposite would presumably be homelylinks Feb 1, 2008
john I don't think they're strictly equivalent, no. Depends on whether permission is granted.
Back in the day, when people called plain 'ol links "hotlinks," I never got that. What then is a cold link? Feb 1, 2008
sarra Hotlink, like hyperlink, used to be HTML speak for what is now just a link. Curious to see it's changed in meaning. Feb 1, 2008
vanishedone Are those terms strictly equivalent? I'd say these were hotlinks, but not theft because they're permitted:
Feb 1, 2008
john "Bandwidth theft or "hotlinking" is direct linking to a web site's files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an![]()
tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on your own site, eBay auction listing, weblog, forum message post, etc."
- altlab.com Jan 31, 2008