You can't protect your images from being downloaded!

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E. T. Culling

I don't think anyone has mentioned this before

Try this... open a web page that has photos on it. Go to File> Save As ...
find a place to save this page ... probably just on your desktop for this
exercise. In the Save Web Page dialog box click SAVE .... and 99% of the
time you will save everything that is used to build that page. The html page
will be just that, but you will also have a folder with all the other
stuff.... all the gifs, jpgs etc.

I'm planning a trip to Australia next spring and instead of printing up a
whole bunch of pages about places I am visiting, I'm using this method to
save all these pages on a CD to later copy to my laptop, which, of course
goes with me. Get to a town... open the html web page with the info. No
internet connection needed!

So this proves in another way that you can't really protect your 'stuff'.

Eleanor
 
J

JL Amerson

Actually, that is what I do if I can't right click and I want a picture for
some reference reason.
 
J

Jimmy

So this proves in another way that you can't really protect your 'stuff'.
Click to expand...

Absolutely not. If you put it on a web server and let me look at it,
I can borrow it.
 
E

E. T. Culling

Read that sentence again... it says you CAN'T protect your stuff!!! That was
the whole point of what I wrote!
 
A

Auerbach

What about saving/presenting images in Flash? How does that affect the
viewer's ability to save the image to disk?
 
E

E. T. Culling

You could always do a screen capture!
But why not try what I suggested and see if you save the Flash file?? I'll
bet you do!
Let me know, please
Eleanor
 
T

Theresa Bennett

Yes, although you can download the Flash .swf file from almost any site, you
cannot edit it or extract the original images from it--other than screen
capture.

HTH
--
Theresa Bennett
http://webworksite.com
"The worksite for designers and developers."

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K

Kevin Spencer

Ellen, he was agreeing with you...

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
K

Kevin Spencer

Anyone that tells you to disable right-clicking on your web site isn't doing
you any favors. And anyone that has spent any time on this newsgroup knows
that this has all been hashed out endlessly over and over again, several
times a week, before.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
K

Kevin Spencer

there is a code that won't allow a visiter to right click
on your page to save anything
Click to expand...

What you should say is that there is a code that won't allow YOU to save
anything. I can save anything that my browser downloads. Oh, that's right:
my browser already saved it, when it downloaded it.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
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Steve Easton

Yep, I can attest to that. As an exercise in futility,
I spent 3 days trying every trick possible
to protect images, including disabling the clipboard and the
IE 6 image toolbar. I would then publish and either Tom
or Thomas would e-mail me copies in a matter of minutes.
;-)
Was fun trying though.
 
C

Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)

Exactly. Since the web requires downloading of resources, there is a way
around everything. Preventing right click stops casual stealers. You can
time things out, which weeds out a few more at the bottom of the food chain.
You can set up your own ActiveX or Java that displays encrypted images, but
that will stop the people you want to see your site from seeing it. No win
situation. Everything can be taken when you put it in public.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Mike Mueller

If you disable javascript your right-click will work...
You can also copy the images from your temporary internet files

MIke
 
M

Mike Mueller

And anyone can go into internet options and disable javascript which makes
those codes worthless.
 
M

Mike Mueller

Chuck-
You are correct that there is a javascript code which stops the casual
right clicker. Common knowledge also knows that any picture viewed has
already been saved in the temporay internet files, and you can always do a
File >Save Page, and you can turn off javascript in the internet options.
Click to expand...
Besides those, anyone can view the source code and access the image directly
and then there is a key-combo that works even when right click is disabled,
using the right click on top of it.
 
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