Image source

[Aaron37]

Hello,
I'm wondering if it's possible to hide or disguise the source of an image in an html file. I was looking at this example :

<IMG height=195
alt=&quot;property snapshots&quot;
src=&quot;Homestore_com Rent Apartments and Homes_files/13171.p01.jpg&quot;
width=288 name=picture>

It is impossible to type in that address and find that image. Does anyone know how to achieve this effect? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[GUJUm0deL]

The way you would get that image by typing in the image name is like this:

[URL unfurl="true"]www.yoursitename.com/Homestore_com[/URL] Rent Apartments and Homes_files/13171.p01.jpg

What you do is, type in the site name, then a '/' and then the directory the image resides in...
Is this what you were looking for?? I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...

 

[Aaron37]

Right but typing that in doesn't take you to the image. I don't know how they do it? Anyway you couldn't use this address &quot;Homestore_com Rent Apartments and Homes_files/13171.p01.jpg&quot; with the spaces in it, it won't work. Any ideas?

 

[RISTMO]

You are right that they couldn't do &quot;Homestore_com Rent Apartments and Homes_files/13171.p01.jpg&quot;. But, the people who would be stealing them would probably know enough to chagne that to:

Homestore_com%20Rent%20Apartments%20and%20Homes_files/13171.p01.jpg

That would give them the relative location of the file. Then, they just have to see which folder you are under and insert that aferwards. Like in GUJUmOdeL's example.

There is no real way to stop them. In Netscape 6.2, Control + I will give you the &quot;page info&quot; which contains the links to all the images in you page!

Even if you were to disable right click, people can still get at the html and look for it. And like I said, netscape provides them another way around that problem.

The only way that I can think of is to somehow watermark the image. I know there are ways of doing this but I don't know the details. I know that sometimes I can use an image that has some type of watermark, but if I try to open it in a paint program, all the color will become grey (I'm assuming that's some type of watermark). There may be ways to say if it's used in this domain, use it, other wise give the bad version.

Rick

 

[Wullie]

Hi guys,

In IE just click and drag the image to the address bar and it shows from your Temp Internet Files.

There are ways around showing an image when the user types the url directly, but they must be done in the server config. Even doing this, the image is cached and there are also other ways round it.

Hope this helps Wullie

sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

 

[Aaron37]

Hello,
What about converting my images to flash? Wouldn't that make it more difficult?

Thanks,

A.Davis

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

It makes it more difficult but a determined user could still get them.

Hope this helps Wullie

sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Aaron37, lets put thu=is way: There's no sure-fire way of protecting (or hiding) your code online...
All the tech. you hear/learn/implement, only make it harder for someone to get what they want (wether it be a code, image, design layout, css style, etc)... I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...