HELP - hide URL links ?

[Anon]

I would like to hide the true URL links for image files and other file types that I reference from a remote server. An example that I saw recently was <img src="image.php"> although I am not sure if image.php referenced an off server (URL) image, but it worked because the image displayed on the page and the source showed "image.php".. not the file name. Any ideas and example code is appreciated.

Thanks.

[[deleted]]

What exactly do you want to do?
Do you want to make your URLs cleaner or do you want to prevent other people from linking to images on your site?

[Anon]

For the sake of can it be done and how to do it...

I want to create pages that link to images on a remote server, but the image source url is hidden from the viewer (ie view source on my page does not see url of image). I saw a <img src="image.php"> once and it worked in that I could not see the source location or filename of the image on the page. That's what I want on my page.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks.

[lucianoes]

I think such schemes are silly and pointless. It is a php link, alright, but it's still a link. It can be used in every single a way a html link can, nobody is hiding anything. And I can always get the name of the image file making it load on the screen and "saving image as...". You just make me have a little more work going about it, but you will have just as much (maybe more) work writing silly scripts to unsuccessfully try to hide things from me.

Laisse tomber, life is too short to be wasted on that.

    Luciano ES
    Santos - SP - Brasil

[Anon]

you could always just get a script that
disables right clicking on images, so that
people viewing your site could not "Save As"
or anything. i have never tried, but i know
they exist.

*shrugs

michael

[Anon]

It's a question that can go in all sorts of directions:

You can change the URL of a given image if you can muck around with the server's configuration (eg. Apache's mod_rewrite) - useful if you're after nicer-looking URLs.

You can't to hide the URL completely - can't be done: if you want them to see the image at all you have to give them the URL. Once they have it they can use over again.

If the src of the img was "image.php" then chances are the image was coming from a database or another file somewhere. Using PHP's gd-lib API, you could then have PHP act as a relay: reading the image in and then spitting it back out. The URL that everyone then sees is that of the PHP script. The image can be somewhere else entirely (that PHP and the server can get to).

[[deleted]]

been there, done that, disable client-side scripting and right-click works again.

[[deleted]]

If you just want to hive the URL: that's not possible.