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Asked: 2026-05-24T15:55:12+00:00

I suspect that this is impossible, but I’m trying to be optimistic… I’m running

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I suspect that this is impossible, but I’m trying to be optimistic…

I’m running a site that uses jquery & php. Via ajax, I’m dynamically loading images to a page. The problem is that the paths to the images are visible when you view the source of the page. I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to prevent the path from displaying? I just don’t want anyone seeing those paths or being able to access them. So, I don’t know if there’s some sort of magical programming solution or something to do with htaccess, but if anyone knows how to accomplish this, I’d appreciate pointers / links / or brilliance…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Everything that’s visible to the browser is visible to the clever user in one way or the other

    You can hide them from lamers, but not from programmers

    Anti-lamer techniques can include:

    1) setting data-mangled-src attribute to something like ROT13(real-src), then doing 

    $('img').each(function () { $(this).attr('src', ROT13($(this).data('mangled-src')))})

    2) setting some data-id attr, then AJAX-requesting the src from the server

    But anyway, the URL goes to the browser, then it’s visible to the user

    3) And, of course, you can load your images into flash ‘viewer’, which is probably the most advanced way of hiding them

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