RE: How do I display TIF images, but not allow direct download?

["Metz, Zak" <Zak_Metz@xxxxxx>]

If preventing people from "stealing" your TIFFs is the goal of this
project, I would strongly suggest you reconsider the viability. As
someone who spends a large part of his evenings "stealing" art from
record label websites for the legitimate purpose of using that art in
conjunction with music reviews, I can tell you without hesitation that
you are never going to stop it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
> 
> > From: Mandy.Shaw@Notability.com
> >
> > We do this by making a servlet deliver the binary data 
> straight to the
> > browser, rather than just using an URL that points to the 
> image file. We
> > store the image in a BLOB in DB2, but you could no doubt do 
> the same by
> > reading the binary data out of an image file if necessary.
> 
> The only caveat being that you no longer take advantage of 
> caching.  That
> is, every time the user wants to see the image, it must be 
> downloaded again.
> The good news, from a security standpoint, is that the TIF 
> isn't stored in
> the browser's temporary cache (from which it can be copied 
> and distributed).
> 
> Joe
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