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Re: You can't download this image

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Post by Mogzol »

meow_mix wrote: post #96

How to download this image: 1. Open Inspect (right click and hit "inspect") 2. Click the "Network" tab 3. Refresh the page (while clearing the cache Command+Shift+R) 4. Right click on "lisa.jpg" in the list view under the "Network" tab 5. Click "Open in new tab" 6. Right click the image on the new tab 7. Click "Save image as" Man I can't believe these clowns (or myself for typing all this out--don't know who is worse…

Did you even try this before posting? These steps are no different than just right-clicking the image and choosing "Save image as". It still results in a download that never finishes.

Re: You can't download this image

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Post by dorkwood »

dvh wrote: post #77
dorkwood wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought this is what it was going to be! Another method would be to generate a plane with the same number of vertices as pixels, store the pixel color values as an attribute, and then render the mesh to a canvas.

You can right-click canvas and save it as image.

Oh, you're right! I guess you'd have to disable the context menu too.

Re: You can't download this image

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Post by bellyfullofbac »

ravenstine wrote: post #92

There's another way to achieve this in a more malicious way. Granted I haven't tried it in years, but it was possible back in 2017 when I tested it. The idea is to fake the image that's being displayed in the IMG element by forcing it to show a `background-image` using `height: 0;` and `padding-top`. In theory, you could make an IMG element show a photo of puppies and if the person chose to Right-click > Save Image A…

Not very new, the technique's probably been around since the 2000's... e.g. you can't right click, save as on the web version of Instagram because all the images are background-images attached to DIVs. In the "old days" there'd be a 1x1 transparent GIF above the image, so any downloader would download that instead.

Re: You can't download this image

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Post by scoopertrooper »

meow_mix wrote: post #96

How to download this image: 1. Open Inspect (right click and hit "inspect") 2. Click the "Network" tab 3. Refresh the page (while clearing the cache Command+Shift+R) 4. Right click on "lisa.jpg" in the list view under the "Network" tab 5. Click "Open in new tab" 6. Right click the image on the new tab 7. Click "Save image as" Man I can't believe these clowns (or myself for typing all this out--don't know who is worse…

Did you even read the page? There's no reason to think that this approach would work.

Re: You can't download this image

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Post by julieturner99 »

unfocused wrote: post #100

In Chrome, you can just do as the author says, right click and "Save Image As". Then just go to the folder where it is being downloaded, and copy/paste the file "lisa.jpeg.crdownload" to "lisa.jpeg.crdownload copy". Rename to "lisa.jpeg" and cancel the download. You now have the image. What's interesting is that you ARE actually downloading this image. It's just that they don't terminate the connection.

i paused the download and renamed the file to .jpeg and it worked similarly

Re: You can't download this image

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Post by hoten »

meow_mix wrote: post #96

How to download this image: 1. Open Inspect (right click and hit "inspect") 2. Click the "Network" tab 3. Refresh the page (while clearing the cache Command+Shift+R) 4. Right click on "lisa.jpg" in the list view under the "Network" tab 5. Click "Open in new tab" 6. Right click the image on the new tab 7. Click "Save image as" Man I can't believe these clowns (or myself for typing all this out--don't know who is worse…

What actually works: take a snapshot of the element via the Elements panel.

Re: You can't download this image

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Post by progman32 »

This is a perfect (if maybe unintentional) example of how to get help from otherwise disinterested technical folk: Make an obviously technically-incorrect claim as fact, and watch as an entire army comes out of the woodwork giving you technical evaluations :)
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