Title: Hotlink Protection
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Hotlink Protection

 *  Resolved [gezginrocker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gezginrocker/)
 * (@gezginrocker)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hotlink-protection/)
 * Hello,
 * I have Hotlink Protection enabled on CPanel. When it is enabled, WP Smush.it 
   doesn’t work.
 * I tried whitelisting “[http://smushit.com&#8221](http://smushit.com&#8221);, 
   but it still doesn’t work.
 * Can you please help me about the address that I need to whitelist?
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smushit/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smushit/)

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 *  [Ari Stathopoulos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aristath/)
 * (@aristath)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hotlink-protection/#post-3669715)
 * I remember seeing these on a previous thread…
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-strange-error/page/2?replies=49#post-2777538](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-strange-error/page/2?replies=49#post-2777538)
   Though this was a CloudFlare-related issue, you could try adding the following
   IPs:
 *     ```
       98.136.171.205
       98.139.160.207
       ```
   
 * I hope that helps!
 * Cheers,
    Ari.
 *  Thread Starter [gezginrocker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gezginrocker/)
 * (@gezginrocker)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hotlink-protection/#post-3669759)
 * Hello,
 * I have added the IPs but still can’t process images.
 * Thanks anyway
 *  [Ari Stathopoulos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aristath/)
 * (@aristath)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hotlink-protection/#post-3669788)
 * I searched and everyone claims these 2 are the IPs used by the smush.it service.
   
   Perhaps your .htaccess also performs some other rewrites to the urls of the images?
   Maybe you have a CDN set-up?
 * Please advise,
    Ari.
 *  Plugin Author [WPMU DEV – Your All-in-One WordPress Platform](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev/)
 * (@wpmudev)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hotlink-protection/#post-3669860)
 * Hey again.
 * Haven’t heard from you in a short while so I just wanted to check in and see 
   how things are going here?
 * If you still need some assistance then by all means just reopen the thread or
   create another one for any new and related issues.
 * Cheers.

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