ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums : Preventing Download of Product Images https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:29:58 +0000 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:07:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2532 <![CDATA[ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums]]> https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ <![CDATA[Preventing Download of Product Images : I endorse Hamish&#039;s comments...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9404.html#9404 Author: Greg Dinger
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Posted: 27-March-2009 at 1:07pm

I endorse Hamish's comments about a watermark. 

]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:07:31 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9404.html#9404 <![CDATA[Preventing Download of Product Images : Yes, this does seem to be a dead...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9401.html#9401 Author: avalight
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Posted: 27-March-2009 at 12:52pm

Yes, this does seem to be a dead end street.  Hooray for the world wide web!  I feel sorry for the artists of the world who might post something only to have it ripped off by anyone.

]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:52:09 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9401.html#9401 <![CDATA[Preventing Download of Product Images : Hi avalight, I wouldn&#039;t...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9400.html#9400 Author: intour
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Posted: 27-March-2009 at 12:48pm

Hi avalight,
 
I wouldn't waste your time on this. Whatever you put on your website to disable 'right click' for saving images won't work because anyone with a basic knowledgs can easily extract the image  from the web cache.
 
Nigel
]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:48:07 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9400.html#9400 <![CDATA[Preventing Download of Product Images : I have seen java scripts for it,...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9325.html#9325 Author: katharina
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Posted: 19-March-2009 at 3:53pm

I have seen java scripts for it, but most you can trick easily.  You may not be able to right click and save, but you can find the image location by viewing the source code.  Next paste the image location into your browser, right click and save. 

Then you still have the issue of search engines like google to pick them up and display them in their image search.  Ok, you can tell them not to spider/index a subdirectory. 

Basically nothing is fool proof and water marking seems to be the only half way save thing.  On the other hand you may wan't your images be available to customs, like wholesale customers, so they can use it in their catalog.

You can also have your url put onto the large image, but that may cover areas of interest.

Katharina
]]> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:53:22 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9325.html#9325 <![CDATA[Preventing Download of Product Images : Hi Curt, The only workable and...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9169.html#9169 Author: Hamish
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Posted: 05-March-2009 at 12:47pm

Hi Curt,
    The only workable and worthwhile solution (IMHO :-) ) is to watermark your images. You can make it a bit trickier with various methods but every one of these can easily be overcome with a simple screengrab (print screen) or a tool, such as cropper, which allows a portion of the screen (such as your images) to be grabbed in a wide variety of image formats.

If you watermark your images they become much less use to others as if they post them on their own site they end up both promoting yours and it's also obvious what they have done.
This can be done in bulk by many image editing applications. You should be careful with watermarking as you need to ensure it doesn't detract from the usefulness of the images to your real customers.
 
]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:47:05 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9169.html#9169 <![CDATA[Preventing Download of Product Images : Hello:I would like to restrict...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/preventing-download-of-product-images_topic2532_post9168.html#9168 Author: avalight
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Posted: 05-March-2009 at 11:59am

Hello:
I would like to restrict visitors to my PC storefront from downloading the individual product photos, particularily the larger ones.  I use another eshopping cart where this is standard.  Is this something that is done at the ProductCart level, or at the server hosting level?  If at the ProductCart level, what do I need to do for this?  Does a special software need to be installed the hosting level?
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Best
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