pics

[parag_29]

i want to secure the pictures on my site. is there any way with which i can stop the pics from being downloaded. they should not be available offline(or in cache) also. i,ve seen such thing in an asp site where the matter is not available offline. can i do it in php. my site is in php4.
parag

[warmwind]

There are probably solutions to this revolving around the web server, but to do it with php, you simply call a script as the src ..

<img src=picstript.php?pic=flowers.gif>

Your script should check that the referring URL is what you'd expect (although it's not too hard to spoof this so don't rely on it) and then
a) Determine the type of image/file,
b) Check to see if it exists,
c) Send the header for that file type (eg header("Content-type: image/gif\r\n"); for gifs)
and finally,
d) Read the file from disc and echo it out ..

[Anon]

If the images are viewed by someone with a browser, they are already downloaded. If you don't want them to be viewed, then don't link them to your site.