Protect media requests
Use the Sitecore media request protection feature optimally.
The media request protection feature restricts media URLs that contain dynamic image-scaling parameters, so that only server-generated requests are processed. This ensures that the server only spends resources and disk space on valid image-scaling requests.
You can make your solution more secure and use the Sitecore media request protection feature optimally, if you make a small change to the Sitecore.Media.RequestProtection.config file.
To optimize the media request protection feature:
Open the
/App_Config/Include/Sitecore.Media.RequestProtection.configfile and change theMedia.RequestProtection.SharedSecretsetting to a random string.
Note
In a multiserver setup, you must use the same value for the Media.RequestProtection.SharedSecret setting on every server. This ensures that dynamic image scaling works correctly in situations where one server generates the image URL and another handles the request.