Change filenames on privacy change

[Rodolfo]

This request has been originated after this topic.

The idea is that when privacy changes from "public" to "private" the system should change all the actual image filenames so the content is not longer accesible via old direct URL links. This should affect only those images within an album that went from public to private.

What do you think?

 

[LEckley]

Thank you for creating the thread!

The only concern which comes to mind is this would invalidate my rewrite rule I have active for certain referrers.

Example: https://is02.ezphotoshare.com/2016/12/24/KGoxV5.gif --> https://www.ezphotoshare.com/image/KGoxV5

 

[Rodolfo]

Yes, it will cause issues with id based filenaming. It just won't work on id based filenames.

 

[LEckley]

Yes, it will cause issues with id based filenaming. It just won't work on id based filenames.

I was afraid of that

I suppose if the file is being renamed we can also update the ID in the database avoiding the above?

 

[lovedigit]

Seems like a good idea. But, I agree with @LEckley, the rewrite would be useless for private images if we go this route. It should be configurable if it is ever implemented.

 

[Rodolfo]

I was afraid of that

I suppose if the file is being renamed we can also update the ID in the database avoiding the above?

ID is also used for the date based listings since the MySQL index created for the ID field is faster than the index created by the data field. So I believe that this suggestion won't work with the existing system functionalities.