This morning I've knocked out an image protection script using multiple tactics. PHP is the main weapon, flash, JS, CSS and headers are also used.

The script is going to be used in a premium content site and the purpose is to discourage most web users from copying the images or discovering the directory location for url browsing.

There's some crafty coders in here, so I was wondering if you could have a go at trying to get a copy of the image onto your hard drive. If you manage that, could you please post how you did it, so I can try and cover any holes I missed.

Webpage image protection script

I gotta crash for a few hours; bbl to see who grabbed a copy.

This is not working in FF

What?? this one

Which version of FF? I tested with 2.0.0.7, IE6.0 and NN7. Seems to work fine. Maxxximux - which one?

Why... this one

GG maxxximus, can you explain how you did it though? That's the point of the thread...

Very little involved - anyone on here could do it. I'll let someone else chime in.

Simple...
With firefox:
right click on the page -> view page infos -> media -> save as
The page infos window can be reached via the menu "tools" too.

The "clipboard disabled" is really annoying though, as it happens with every tabs opened.
I generally have around 10/15 tabs opened at the same time, and the fact that it's not local is something that would be driving me mad if I didn't knew what it came from.

I'll give it a shot this evening at my linux box, because I'm fairly confident that the copy/paste buffer won't be affected there, but I'm curious.

metho, would you care to explain a bit on the method you used to realize this ?
I'm really curious.

Trippy, what do you mean realize?

The sites this script is intended for has a target market of 98.5 IE users, so to figure out a way to mask the image in FF's page info media tab... maybe.

You could just do a print screen for small images?

Trippy, what do you mean realize?

I meant, what techniques do you have used.

The sites this script is intended for has a target market of 98.5 IE users, so to figure out a way to mask the image in FF's page info media tab... maybe.

Sure, and the way I see things, almost any "power user" use something else than IE today.
And I don't see how I could have done it with ie...

And as the info pane in firefox, it's a base feature of the browser that is outside of the page DOM, so I don't think you can alter the way it displays, or prevent user to display it.
It's like opening the bookmark panel, or the preference window, for me.
Out of reach for any javascript/flash element.

The images dont appear in the FF page info media tab when using https. If the script ran on https and forced a redirect to https when connecting via http, you couldn't save the image from the media tab either.

I tried it and the save nearly crashed the browser. The resulting image file was only 19bytes of a 3Kb image file. So, in it's final version, I can run it on https to stop FF users from saving from the media tab.

What about plain old screenshot it and extract it that way? =)

try it...

The images dont appear in the FF page info media tab when using https

I think it's so because FF don't cache https elements, so image cannot be retrieved from it's cache neither.
You can change it via about:config and searching for "browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl"

True, not many average users will know it or change it...

neat, but the clip board thing is very annouying, it disabled it when i was trying to copy the source url of the image from the soucre of the script, so i had to close it and open the root page which didnt have the copy paste disabled so i could paste the imge url .

Preety good tho, i havent tested in anythign but ie7

Will this image protection script be publicly avalible?

"Will this image protection script be publicly avalible?" - nope, clients are paying for it. Prolly will after the sites gone live...

I noticed it screws up other open sites.

How so? Haven't noticed anything like that...

The anti copy flash file affect every opened tabs/windows.
That's what I was saying previously

The "clipboard disabled" is really annoying though, as it happens with every tabs opened.

And for the record, as I thought, the copy/paste in linux works, when you use the middle mouse button as paste.
This is a special Linux behaviour: You highlight a text with your mouse, it gets copied, and you paste it with a middle click.
I could copy/paste the http://v2media.biz/php_utilities/ima...on.php?imgID=5 url with it.

ctr+c/v is affected by the flash though. But as I have the adblock extention, I see a "block this" tab attached where the 1x1 px element is embedded, and if I block it, the copy/paste works again.