'Get a link' in hidden galleries can reveal account info?

BSing

I've got a hidden gallery. It's a 'smart' gallery and also has its own pics. It's set to populate the gallery with all pics of a certain keyword.

When I use the 'get a link' function on a picture that has been auto-added (from another gallery) via the smart function, the link to the picture looks OK, but when pasted into the browser, redirects to a version revealing the smug account the "hidden" pic is posted in.

This is what is generated by "Get a link" (XL):

http://www.smugmug.com/Out-and-About/2010-05012-Bris-Dez-Study/DSC3734/868050626_Yuxd6-XL.jpg

Already it reveals the category and album info - not good for a direct link to a "hidden pic".

But when you hit that address, it redirects to

http://bsing.smugmug.com/Out-and-About/2010-05012-Bris-Dez-Study/DSC3734/868050626_Yuxd6-XL.jpg

That shows a lot of info for a hidden pic- account, category, and gallery.

I messed around and looked at the URLs generated for pics that are actually in that hidden gallery (as opposed to the smartly copied ones), and got the following to work, even for a smart copy of a pic:


http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/868050626_Yuxd6-XL.jpg

Can it generate that instead?

B

docwalker

Hi, I will be happy to take a look and see what is happening. --doc

docwalker

B, I just took a look at your gallery and it is neither unlisted, or hide owner.

Unlisted should not effect the links as they can still be linked to using your username links. The hide owner does effect the links like you want. I do not want to change the settings and mess up something you are doing. But you might want to make sure that is set, and grab your link. If you turn it off, the share links will revert to the username version.

--Doc

BSing

docwalker wrote: »

The hide owner does effect the links like you want.

Thanks for taking a look at it!

That's the part that I think is broken. Sorry for being a bit unclear above. I have "hide owner" turned on for the gallery. When I get a link for pics in the gallery, if the pic was added as "smart" item from another gallery, the scenario described in the op occurs. The link that is generated and redirected to eventually reveals the owner, as described above.

If a picture is added directly to the gallery, the 'hide owner' functionality works as expected.

Example:

This picture is in the same gallery, and it does not reveal the owner when you get a link and paste that link into a browser window.

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/11440101_VCUwq#818094733_8Mcja


Here's the link to the XL photo:

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/818094733_8Mcja-XL.jpg


As you can see, no owner info, or redirection to an owner URL.

See the original post for the example of an item added via "smart" gallery. Both of these links/pics are from the same gallery - they were just added differently - one direct and one "smart".


BUT, I think I found a way to make *any* pic not reveal owner, which is what I kinda wanted anyway. Just use the URL

http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/insertphotoidhere-XL.jpg

Is that right? If so, would be cool to have that as a "get a link" option.

Thanks again!

BSing

docwalker

the photos.smugmug.com link will hide the owner.

I am sending your problem to the programmers as a bug. I am not sure why we are revealing the source of the image.

BSing wrote: »

Thanks for taking a look at it!

That's the part that I think is broken. Sorry for being a bit unclear above. I have "hide owner" turned on for the gallery. When I get a link for pics in the gallery, if the pic was added as "smart" item from another gallery, the scenario described in the op occurs. The link that is generated and redirected to eventually reveals the owner, as described above.

If a picture is added directly to the gallery, the 'hide owner' functionality works as expected.

Example:

This picture is in the same gallery, and it does not reveal the owner when you get a link and paste that link into a browser window.

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/11440101_VCUwq#818094733_8Mcja


Here's the link to the XL photo:

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/818094733_8Mcja-XL.jpg


As you can see, no owner info, or redirection to an owner URL.

See the original post for the example of an item added via "smart" gallery. Both of these links/pics are from the same gallery - they were just added differently - one direct and one "smart".


BUT, I think I found a way to make *any* pic not reveal owner, which is what I kinda wanted anyway. Just use the URL

http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/insertphotoidhere-XL.jpg

Is that right? If so, would be cool to have that as a "get a link" option.

Thanks again!

BSing

docwalker

B Sorry that it has taken this long to figure out what was happening. This is actually working as designed. Smart galleries use the settings for the photos from the original gallery. So even though the Smart gallery is hide owner, it is using the settings from the source of the image. If you set that gallery as hide owner also, it will work correctly. Sorry for the confusion on that.