Image Protection?!

[xinoy]

Hi,

is there a possibility for an image protection?
I mean that it isn't allowed to download images from a website built with phpwcms?

Greetz Michael

[Oliver Georgi]

This is something you have to handle by configuring your webserver - using .htaccess is the best way to do so.
http://www.naturefocused.com/articles/i ... idth-theft

Prevent loading from

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/content/images

and

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/filearchive

[update]

This is for hot linking only, but can be extended to a friendly behavior
Just send them a picture of your choice:

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?domain.tld/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|swf|flv|png|css|js)$ http://domain.tld/my-logo-link.pnn [R,L]

[xinoy]

hmm maybe i wasn't clear enough.. I actually ment a right mouseclick save as protection. When lightbox is used..

[Oliver Georgi]

Forget the right click prevention! This is stupid old school - any image you see is just on your computer (browser cache). If someone want to copy it - there is no way to prevent this.

And lightbox does not have such problem because image is always loaded as CSS background image.

[flip-flop]

In LightBox/SLimBox you can´t save a picture using the right mouse button.

In addition, for me there is no way to protect a picture when surfing. If we see the image, it is cached by the browser.
All the technics like transparent overlay or backgrond image or htaccess protect can not keep advanced users from downloading a picture.

Knut

[Heiko H.]

Hi,
all the things written by OG and Knut are absolutely right! There is only one way to protect your pictures -> Put your pictures in a safe and show them to nobody. In the moment the picture is visible in the browser, it is already downloaded and the user is able to copy it some how...
...for example from the browser cache, with a screenshot, etc.

Heiko...

[Cipolla]

Yep, That's the way the cookie crumbles.

Put a watermark in your picture.