Reply To: Privacy of directory profile images

Hi Steven,

Thank you so much for your prompt reply and assistance as always. Sorry I didn’t have time to look into this until now as some other issues came up.

I’ve ran through the instructions, I believe have been done correctly but waiting for the request for the removal of the cached entries in google to be 100% sure they don’t reappear on google from further indexing.

Some questions, more for my own understanding…

1. The robots.txt is just a standard to request search engines etc not to index certain directories, so google etc would comply but this doesn’t change anything in the way of actually accessing the file.
2. The .htaccess entries basically prevent any files from being listed in the connections-images folder (and sub-folders I’m assuming?). So this is something enforced by the web server / host right?
3. From my understanding, if someone already knew the full URL of the image file, that is not blocked right? Unfortunately if someone was determined enough and simply knew a persons firstname/lastname and the directory structure of the plugin they would be able to access the image file (to my understanding). Is there any further way around this to restrict these images to be provided to logged in members only or this is a bit difficult?

Thank you kindly.