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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@Mina@swiss-talk.net

Protected Pictures in a website?

I have a web portal that is only accessible after log-in (sort of like the Facebook pages that have opted out of discovery).

When I print articles (e.g. as pdf), the lead (preview) picture gets removed from the printout. Very anoying.

I can't even access the picture's URL (mouse-over etc. won't work).

The website is programmed with CSS and from what I'm seeing in the source code, the pics are js (probably Java Script).

Any ideas?

@HistoPol @Mina don’t the developer tools show you the real url to the image?
Another possibility is that they are base64 encoded data; in that case screenshotting is your easiest option

@Dave_von_S @Mina@swiss-talk.net

Hi Dave, thank you for your help!

The developer tool has the issue that it is "drill down", i.e. there are layers underneath.

I found the part with the js where the website (which I anonymized WITH ALL CAPS is given, but just isolating that part doesn't do the trick.

Here is that part, hope it tells you something more than me. ;)

(The 1st pic is the screenshot from the developer area, the second one the "drill down" of the marked part.