
I go to this web page: http://www.buerofuerform.de/ I click on the word "lighting". I click on the word "flapflap". A series of images appears. I want to download one of them, but can't figure out how. Although the images appear to be individual ones, they aren't. They've got something to do with Flash, but I know nothing about that. Is there some simple way I can download one of the images? -- Visit http://stumblng.tumblr.com An Australian lawyer's tumblelog about things (some legal, most not) you might otherwise have missed

Simple answer: no (but). Answer with rounding to 9 decimal places: yes. Ideally you would want to know the path of the image itself, as the gallery application loads the relevant image which is either hard-coded or more likely the app is simply displaying all the images in a given directory. Two reasons one might have used a gallery like this: 1. To protect his images from being downloaded. 2. So one can do fun things with images once they've been loaded. 2b. Because flash is better than Java(script) - debatable to some, but anyway... 3. To protect his images from spiders (Google). If I were you, I would simply ask if you can have a copy of the image - offer a small donation or something. A quick and dirty way though would be to take a screen-shot (print screen) and crop the image in [insert favourite graphics app here] Mathew Leslie Katz wrote:
I go to this web page: http://www.buerofuerform.de/ I click on the word "lighting". I click on the word "flapflap". A series of images appears. I want to download one of them, but can't figure out how. Although the images appear to be individual ones, they aren't. They've got something to do with Flash, but I know nothing about that.
Is there some simple way I can download one of the images?

Ideally you would want to know the path of the image itself, as the gallery application loads the relevant image which is either hard-coded or more likely the app is simply displaying all the images in a given directory.
Quite likely the flash application is fetching the images via http anyhow.. so use ethereal to catch all the requests going to that webserver, dig through the packet dump and grep/sed the url's, then fetch them with wget or similar.
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