Anonymising direct links?

tfboytfboy Registered Users Posts: 74 Big grins
edited January 29, 2016 in SmugMug Support
Is there a way of providing a link to a photo but excluding any gallery and filename information?

I know I can can out the gallery section and keep just the last bit of the path, but even then, I still have the original filename. Is there a way of substituting that?

There are cases where I have taken photos for, say, Client A which I can share with Client B, but I don't want client B knowing it comes from Client A.

So for example, the URL is hxxp://photos.xavimages.co.uk/Folder1/Folder2/GalleryClientA/i-<key>/0/<size>/Photo-ClientA-<size>.jpg where Photo-ClientA- is the original filename.

I can reduce it to hxxp://photos.xavimages.co.uk/i-<key>/0/<size>/Photo-ClientA-<size>.jpg

But I'm still stuck with the ClientA / original filename.

Is there a way to share a direct link to a photo with a different name?
Xavier
Smugsite: http://photos.xavimages.co.uk - Blogsite: http://www.xavimages.co.uk

Comments

  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2016
    Copy the share photo link when logged in, then change the front end like this and remove the file name.
    This is completely anonymous, no site or photo file name.

    to http://cdn.smugmug.com/photos/i-XXXXXX/1/M/M.jpg

    BTW /photos/ can be anything. /anything here/

    This works for my site
    http://cdn.smugmug.com/photos/i-4STs4gm/1/M/M.jpg

    but this for your site redirects? Perhaps I guessed on the /1/
    changed /1/ to /0/ and works
    http://cdn.smugmug.com/photos/i-6vRzKt9/0/M/M.jpg
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
    My Website index | My Blog
  • tfboytfboy Registered Users Posts: 74 Big grins
    edited January 15, 2016
    Ahh Super Allen! Thanks!

    I wonder why I didn't think to try that. :)

    Out of interest, is there a thread / document / wiki / something that details all these technical details?
    Xavier
    Smugsite: http://photos.xavimages.co.uk - Blogsite: http://www.xavimages.co.uk
  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2016
    When they recently redesigned the share box I tried to get them to add the anonymous photo
    link but they said they could not justify it.
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
    My Website index | My Blog
  • forestlitterforestlitter Registered Users Posts: 38 Big grins
    edited January 29, 2016
    I encourage anyone tired of using work arounds and interested in having a cleaner way to obtain a non-identifying url to vote for this request:

    http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/1...red-links-gene

    If clicking the link above does not work for you, paste this link in your browser:

    feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug/suggestions/2511855-add-an-anonymous-option-to-the-shared-links-gene
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