Thread: hotlinking exception

Can anyone tell me how to add an exception for hotlinking images? I have something like the below on my .ht access file:

#RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

I was figuring if I wanted an image called image.png to be hotlinked then the code would look something like this:

#RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^http://mysite.com/image.png$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

This doesn't seem to work though. Anyone out there able to help or point me in the right direction? It's driving me nuts.