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Eliot Rosewater

(32,530 posts)
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 02:18 PM Sep 2022

How do I make certain the gif or pic I am copy pasting is safe?

I know about the lock, I know about the https vs http, but whenever I google a pic and I click on it I often get warnings from malwarebytes etc. Most of the time I dont, but I also know from past mistakes that I can be risking something.

Other than not doing it, what is the best way to do this?

Thanks!

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How do I make certain the gif or pic I am copy pasting is safe? (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Sep 2022 OP
1. try Tetrachloride Sep 2022 #1
Here is one at random Eliot Rosewater Sep 2022 #2
All the chars are ManiacJoe Sep 2022 #3

Tetrachloride

(8,444 posts)
1. 1. try
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 02:27 PM
Sep 2022

1. right click and copy the link
2. paste into NotePad
3. or paste into a reply to me here

i can test it.

the suffix is usually the key info.

try the reply here

Eliot Rosewater

(32,530 posts)
2. Here is one at random
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 03:27 PM
Sep 2022
https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/head-exploding

what on these is the suffix? I can see that this first one is a website with an "S" for security, but still curious about it...

and another



ok, on the other one there are thousands or hundreds anyway of characters...what is that all about?

Thank you

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ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
3. All the chars are
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 01:47 AM
Sep 2022

the JPG converted to encoded text so that the image is physically contained in the HTML file instead of being referenced by an IMG tag as a separate file.

The suffix would probably be the file extension - GIF, JPG and the like. This normally identifies what kind of file it is. The catch with sites like iStockPhoto.com is that they are not going to feed you an image file ID-ed as such until you formally press the buy or download button. Until then they will have the browser download the image file as "data only" using the WEBP file to create the image data using server-side scripting based on all the parameters after the "?" marker in the URL.

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