[CentOS] How to Stop the Image URL in apache

[Valeri Galtsev]

There is sort of fundamental question:

is the image delivered to my machine? Yes, as it is displayed within some
other content. And as it is on my machine I will be able to save it as a
separate file. Then, what's the point of blocking "direct URL"?

Thanks.
Valeri

On Mon, July 28, 2014 3:59 am, Gopu Krishnan wrote:
> Try the below :
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18524511/how-can-i-block-direct-access-to-images-in-a-directory-but-allow-php-to-display
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote:
>
>> On 07/28/2014 08:08 PM, Shital Sakhare wrote:
>> > While clicking on the image it opens into the browser. I dont want to
>> allow
>> > client to open the image in browser as separate url.
>>
>> Not possible.  There is nothing in the http protocol that differentiates
>> between a file being displayed inline inside other content and being
>> downloaded separately.  All the webserver knows is that the file was
>> requested from the server and it delivers that file.
>>
>> There are tricks you can do with client-side javascript, or with
>> checking the referrer or user agent, etc. but all of them are easy to
>> circumvent, and note that regardless of what you do that file has to be
>> downloaded in order to be displayed in any capacity.
>>
>>
>> Peter
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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