CentOS - Jul 2014 - How to Stop the Image URL in apache

Hi,

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. I have blocked the
/image/ directory from access/listing , but the image is opening.

ex. http://example.com/images/1.jpg . The image should not open in browser
with this URL.

How to stop that in apache. Please help me.

Shital S.

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