urgent .. images security

kirun posted this at 05:31 — 21st December 2001.

Joined: Sep 2001

i m building a website ..in ASP which shows images.. and the site is only for registered user.. so i have to protect those pictuers and images from those culprits which are not registered.. as you know that every body .. uses the folder images.. if any body can guess the images folder and image's name then an unregistred user can also access those pictuers...and this thing i dont want ..

the soloution which are coming in mind are ..

to store the images in the data base and then load them form data base.. but some body told me that they would not be cached...

the other is that i uses the server security whcih is given by the webserver... but how can i implemnt it in the ASP...

n e more ideas .. on the images security.. plz help its very very urgent

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Suzanne posted this at 07:52 — 21st December 2001.

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logic, no code, sorry...

you would want to set the server to only allow views to those pages/images from your own url as a referrer, and redirect all other calls to the login page.

Suzanne

kirun posted this at 08:09 — 21st December 2001.

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Hi there

please more allobrate this soloution...

thanks in advance

Mark Hensler posted this at 09:09 — 21st December 2001.

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If your adventurous, you can do it via .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://your_domain.com/.*$     [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.your_domain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|GIF|jpg|JPG)$ http://your_server.com/leaches.html [R]

'More info here:
http://faq.solutionscripts.com/misc/hot_linking.html

My experience riping images:

I found that a lot of gallery sites have patterns in their image paths, so a while back I created a script that I use from time to time to run through gallery sites. I just setup the patterns, and click Next/Prev. It's fast and easy to use.

My script: maxalbert.com/hidden/blah.php
Here is a gallery rip example. This is 'steeling' the images from art.com. The middle Prev/Next buttons seem to control categories, the right set go through the images in the category. I honestly accidentally picted one with the WTC, but it's a nice image.

I'm evil.

Mark Hensler
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kirun posted this at 09:58 — 21st December 2001.

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Joined: Sep 2001

Thanks Mark.....

for all your support and time

thanks again