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Bluefrog 
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 Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:22am |
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Please excuse my ignorance... but why would people want to steal images from someone? I could see if it was a porn server, because that's a nasty tough business, but if you're not doing porn, I don't know why... Just curious really.
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:24am |
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You can download the image to a temp directory, wich is in the app, and when you unload, delete it.
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:38am |
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Please excuse my ignorance... but why would people want to steal images from someone? I could see if it was a porn server, because that's a nasty tough business, but if you're not doing porn, I don't know why... Just curious really. |
you think porn sites are the only sites out there who want to protect intellicual property such as, yes images??
i know i my site there's about 300 articles and "how-to"-s all with images showing what to do.... and i sure in hell don't like it when someone points out that some other site pawns that image off as "theirs".. i spent my time and my effort to take that image to show what I am doing, i'd like to keep it "mine".......
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:47am |
Porn isn't exactly the classiest stuff around, so I'd expect it there.
But for something like what you've mentioned, I would expect people to have a bit more decency. Is it really a problem? I mean, do people really leech like that?
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 8:57am |
people are, to quote Michal Bolton in the movie "Office Space":
No talent ass clowns
I couldn't tell you how many sites over the years i have seen come onto my site, do a "View Source", paste it somewhere on their site, then pass it off as theirs......
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 9:09am |
That's why you need to do it by using an asp script to render the image on the page.
<%=mysite.com/imageretriever.asp?id=whatever.jpg%>
imagereriever.asp would be a proxy server - similar to Leech Blocker. Images could be either outside of the root space, or within a directory that has script only access. HTTP_REFERRER's not within mysite.com wouldn't be served.
Other way to do it is to have the links point to an image in a non-existant directory, and put proxyserver code within the 404 page.
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 10:55am |
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I do it because bandwith costs money, and people are starting to use images they uploaded to my server as signaure images in other forums
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 2:46pm |
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dpyers, how do you exactly configure the imageretriever.asp(x)?
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