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Posted: **22 May 2007, 20:15**

Photo Security.

Currently if I go to anyone site, and I mean anyone. and I add the following:

http://www.sitename.com/upload/index.ph ... ,1,1,1,1,1

I can download your copyrighted images. As a photographer, I don't want people downloading my work. That's why i am displaying them in Flash to begin with.

So anyone can turn on the image/photo download feature of the gallery viewer. In other words the URL "command line" takes presidence over the INI file. Which, BTW, I have a problem with that as well. I can download the INI file buy just typing it in the URL, and presto, it will ask me where to save it. If this was a PHP file then no go.

Ok...

What I would like to see.
1. The config.ini file renamed to config.php.
2. Within the config file, an option to allow the URL entry to take presidence over the config file.

example:

URLRIGHTS = 1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1

Where the different 1's and 0's would turn on and off the options for almost every command.

I'm not a programmer, but I play one on TV, and this is just my thoughts.

Peace
JP

Posted: **23 May 2007, 21:29**

Frankly this want designed as a security photobox, but maybe if you specify what security measures you expect, there might be some ways to help.

Posted: **23 May 2007, 22:38**

Other than what I have already said...
I don't want people to be able to download my images/photos.

Like I said.. its just my 2 cents, doesn't mean its worth anything. I have coded around it, by embedding the viewer within a flash movie, and hard coding the config file to use for each gallery. No biggie.

JP

Posted: **26 May 2007, 01:41**

In my own professional career I have yet to see or hear of anyone ever stealing a photograph online and using it for personal gain. Though I've no doubt it occurs, I'm suggesting that maybe it happens so rarely that it's a non-issue.

I'd also like to suggest that no matter the security offered in ImageVuex the end viewer will likely always be able to 'print screen' and setup a good file via photoshop with minimal fuss.

What I'd suggest is if you think your work is being downloaded and used, perhaps a watermark is the way to go? You could custom create if to your hearts content then lay it over your photographs with varying opacity to suit your needs.

Link to your website please?

Good luck!

Posted: **30 May 2007, 07:51**

jpeterman wrote:Photo Security.

Currently if I go to anyone site, and I mean anyone. and I add the following:

http://www.sitename.com/upload/index.ph ... ,1,1,1,1,1

I can download your copyrighted images. As a photographer, I don't want people downloading my work. That's why i am displaying them in Flash to begin with.

Very few people are going to know to do this. It's a small risk.

Some other people are going to know they can search their browser cache and find your images. Flash only makes it more difficult, not impossible.

Flash still won't stop a screenshot.

If you show something on the internet, it can be stolen.

The only foolproof security is to not show your work.

Posted: **30 May 2007, 16:49**

Watermarkers is byfar the best security you can get. Its virutually impossible to let someone "view" your photos, but yet not allow them to obtain them personally. If someone wanted it really badly, and we did somehow embed this feature so that it loads in as a flash object and not as a jpg source, then people would just result to flash decompliers and decompile your swf files out of their temporary internet files.

As I said before, watermarkers will be the most likely security because it does take a handful of work just to re-edit the pictures to perfection again with a big watermark stamp on it.

If you don't want people downloading it (a great security risk) then only let your trusted peers view it. If you are afriad others will be downloading it, you shouldn't be putting it up in the first place.

Posted: **23 Jun 2007, 19:13**

If anyone is worried about people stealing the tiny images, then dont post.

What concerns me now is that this post tells the world how to bypass all of our hard work in configuring our galleries the way we want them! Now that is more of a pain to me that someone who can simply do a screen print anyway.

Posted: **09 Mar 2008, 16:25**

jpeterman wrote:Photo Security.

Currently if I go to anyone site, and I mean anyone. and I add the following:

http://www.sitename.com/upload/index.ph ... ,1,1,1,1,1

I can download your copyrighted images. As a photographer, I don't want people downloading my work. That's why i am displaying them in Flash to begin with.

So anyone can turn on the image/photo download feature of the gallery viewer. In other words the URL "command line" takes presidence over the INI file. Which, BTW, I have a problem with that as well. I can download the INI file buy just typing it in the URL, and presto, it will ask me where to save it. If this was a PHP file then no go.

Ok...

What I would like to see.
1. The config.ini file renamed to config.php.
2. Within the config file, an option to allow the URL entry to take presidence over the config file.

example:

URLRIGHTS = 1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1

Where the different 1's and 0's would turn on and off the options for almost every command.

I'm not a programmer, but I play one on TV, and this is just my thoughts.

Peace
JP

it's easy to protect your ini files

just use an .htaccess file and add

<Files>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

behind the files (first line) you need to add ie. config.ini (seems be auto removed)

and nobody can access any ini file anymore

Posted: **16 Dec 2008, 23:18**

This is Imagevue V1, and with Imagevue V2 you can't run url parameters like that.

Just to put a closing comment on this issue:
I don't see why you would be worried about users being able to download your images by figuring out the URL parameters to enable download. Any web-savvy user will know that all images are downloaded into browser cache and can be accessed from there! Why would they care to use url params to download photos? If a technical person wants to get your photos, they will - It's as simple as that.

Sorry people. The only true protection if you are worried about your photos, is to watermark them.

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