Question

I am currently using the following method to recieve images from my FTP server: <img src="Username:Password@Url />, however, I was wondering wether there exists any safer way to do this?

PHP is available.

Answer 1

I don’t condone requesting images like this, but you could request the contents of the image via something file_get_contents (or even better cURL) and save it to your server. Like so (am using file_get_contents for speed of example, definitely use cURL):

$image = file_get_contents('Username:Password@Url');
file_put_contents('image.jpg', $image);

Then..

<img src="image.jpg">