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neon
neon

Reputation: 2821

Securely storing a Facebook image url (Rails 3)

BACKGROUND: I am using Facebook Connect to gather users' Facebook image URL (i.e. http://graph.facebook.com/111111/picture) where 111111 is each user's Facebook ID.

OBJECTIVE: To store the image URL in a way in which the Facebook ID in the URL isn't outwardly visible (meaning that another user won't be able to figure out who the user is simply by right-clicking 'copy image url' and looking at the ID in the url)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 579

Answers (2)

neon
neon

Reputation: 2821

Answer can be found here: Get redirect of a URL in Ruby

Upvotes: 1

instigator
instigator

Reputation: 1677

Write a script that will download the image from FB's server, then output the image.

IE: www.yoururl.com/viewimage?id=UNIQUE_TOKEN_ASSOCIATED_WITH_FB_ACCOUNT

So when someone sees the url, they just see a unique token that maps to the FB id in your database.

Upvotes: 1

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