On Aug 9, 2008, at 9:44 AM, David Precious wrote:
steve miller wrote:
Could use some help with hiding an image source:
Doing a photographer site without flash, and trying to make it as
difficult to get to a filename as possible.
I have used php files to generate images using the image tag, like
<img src="image.php" />, but even if I disable "right clicking" it
is easy to drag these to the desktop with a mac.
My thought was to put these as a table background (which makes it
impossible to drag) leaving only a screenshot as the way to steal.
Problem is that using background="image.php" doesn't seem to work...
Any thoughts?
You're fighting a losing battle, you can't stop it, by definition:
if the browser can download it to display it, the user can download/
save it.
Even if you were doing it within Flash, it's still trivial to use a
browser plugin like Tamper Data (for Firefox) to watch all the
requests being made, you'll see the request for the image, and you
can just click "replay in browser" to make that request again to
download it.
I'm assuming you don't want people to download the full image
without paying or something? Why not just watermark the images,
and provide the original, un-watermarked images in an area that
requires a login or something?
Hi David.
I know you're right about the "losing battle", but I'm just trying to
make it harder on the casual snoopers who "view source" and take the
photos.
We are already using a login section and I have asked the site owner
to watermark, but since she's concerned that clients will pass around
the login info so others can preview the photos before purchase,
which tends to increase the opportunity to take. I don't think any of
them would have the means or skill to use plugins to view requests,
so I thought hiding the url would be enough.
So, think there is a way to do the background="image.php" kind of thing?
steve
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