posted on September 15, 2000 05:43:37 AM new
This may belong on the EO, but it'll get trampled by PayPal threads so I'm doing it here.
I recently came across a seller's auction with a cute animated GIF, which I wanted to save for my private collection. I right-clicked to display and then save, and saw gibberish. I looked at the name of the image, and saw that it was ***.html, not ***.gif. I checked the listing's product images and they were the same, and also unsavable, except as HTML. The seller had screened his/her homepage directory and it was not viewable either, so there was no way to get to the pictures in GIF/JPG mode that way (assuming they were there in that format). My curiosity was aroused, since I hadn't come across this trick before, and I wondered whether there was a way to defeat it. I didn't spend much time trying work-arounds (and don't have the image-manipulating SW that would probably make it easy), but thought that for image-theft-prevention, it was the best thing I'd yet seen.
I have no idea how it was done, but wanted to mention it in case someone here had some ideas.
posted on September 15, 2000 07:20:05 AM new
Pareau,
I have had the same experience with gif and jpg images being html images. I don't know how to make the conversion either. If you find out how, please let me know. Thanks...
