making my webpage impossible to steal from

[Chooco]

i read in one of the Apache manuals that there was a setting to make it not possible to save or copy pictures from my website.

i can't find where i read it so do any of you know?

[Mntsnow]

Nothing on the net is truly "secure" You will only slow down the theft of images. If you really dont want others to have them then dont post them to the net.

[DutchMaster]

Taken from Site desing RIPPED

Quote:

Originally posted by ChoaticWhisper
This page can encrypt HTML source using java script.
I really doubt that he is going to mess with the source if it looks like what that does to it.

[PonzSpyder]

Well said Mntsnow.

You could try this to slow it down..

disable the right click menu option in your browser

disable save as option

although you could always "save target as" from a link to the page and get it anyway

EDIT: Good link DutchMaster

[vass0922]

can also take a screenshot

no way to get around that one.

Especially with WinXP automatically sizing the images for you (cause Big Bills knows thats what you want :P I shut that bug errrr "Feature" of REAL quick when I get a chance) means you can't oversize the image to avoid having a screen shot taken.

[ChoaticWhisper]

The best I know of is using this in combination with

<TABLE BACKGROUND="picture_to_show.jpg" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
<TR><TD><IMG SRC="clear.gif" HEIGHT="50" WIDTH="50"></TD></TR>
</TABLE>

would be the best thing to do.

Looks like the link got posted before I could post it.
Edit: Right Click Save Target as.. to get the clear.gif picture.

[OuTpaTienT]

Why is this such a problem? Is your site going to be of such an awe-inspiring layout & design and so unique to the web that you might incur damages (physical/mental/otherwise) if someone lifts a bit of your code?

I know it sounds like I'm being a smartass here, and I am to a point, but I'm also being serious...IOW if you do have what you think is an outstanding, award-winning web page design then by all means, do whatever you can to protect yourself. However, if it's just another web site (amongst billions) then I really am baffled at the paranoia thing and at your unwillingness to share your knowledge with others who may be simply learning to build sites and just want to see how you did what you did.

[^hyd^]

if right click is disabled and I see a picture I like all I do is drag it to the address bar or status bar and it goes to a new page with just the image and then I save away....

But after a little playing around I realised this could be prevented by putting the image inside an <a href="#"></a> tag.

so it'd look like this:

<a href="#"><img src="path to image" border=0></a>

the "border=0" eliminates the ugly border created when an image is made into a hyperlink....

also, some JS scripts eliminating the rightclick feature can be defeated by clicking and holding the middle mouse button (if u have one..) and then clicking the right mouse button and releasing both together... (roughly like that, takes a try or two...)

and theres always the good ol' cache!!

probably the best option to (almost) completely stop a person from getting stuff is to create an all Flash website. But even then, all you need is a printscreen button and a photo editor!

But best of luck!

cya!

[ChoaticWhisper]

Hey Outpatient, I dont think this thread is really dealing with source code but pictures, I had some drawings up on a site before I didnt want anyone taking them, as for the code I dont care.

[DutchMaster]

I must say that I learned allot of HTML and Javascript in the past by looking into the source. That doesn't mean I was planning to steal the content.

Its still possible to do CTRL-A and CTRL-C to copy the text, meaning the content, which is more important to protect than ones site layout IMO.