Protecting an image with the use of Flash, external JPG files and XML http://www.marcofolio.net Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:38:25 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.marcofolio.net/actionscript/protecting_an_image_with_the_use_of_flash.html#josc1807 Sorry to say, but even easier than decompiling it\'s very easy to inspect the traffic and it will give you the path to the XML and the image. It took me about 2 seconds to find out that the path to the image is not \"leopard.jpg\" as you wrote in your example. The full path you use is: http://demo.marcofolio.net/protecting_an_image_with_the_use_of_flash/hidden_leopard.jpg Sure it\'s a way to deter some people who is not willing to make an effort, but at the expense of making viewing your images horrible for all your users. Good effort, but the only way to protect your images is to not put them online. Leo Mon, 05 May 2008 00:27:43 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/actionscript/protecting_an_image_with_the_use_of_flash.html#josc1825 Wow, I didn\'t think that could happen. Pretty much sucks that it\'s so easy to find the images, thanks for noticing. You\'re right about the last part about not putting images online. Once they\'re on the net, you\'ll never get them off. Marco Tue, 06 May 2008 13:42:15 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/actionscript/protecting_an_image_with_the_use_of_flash.html#josc2203 Using IE, clear your cache and view the page, open up the \"Temporary Internet Files\" folder and identify the orignal jpg it\'s properties will give you the URL of the image. Daniel Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:54:55 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/actionscript/protecting_an_image_with_the_use_of_flash.html#josc3463 Thank you guys for the tips. I needed to find a method how to extract the images from the Flash animation. So, I looked in the browsers cache and found the images that were requested from the Flash file (.swf). The image which was large was split in several pieces of size (256x256 pixels) because it was one that could be zoomed, but I see the file naming pattern for the individual parts. File names were not camouflaged the way you describe, so I can fortunately create a PHP-script that can fetch the images via direct URL and piece them together again. koyama Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:53:23 +0100