Disallow anonymous users from viewing image & file URLs

[chrisc (Chris Croome)]

The client I’m working for at the moment on this is willing to pay for a plugin to solve this issue, see:

[PAID-job] Create a plugin to require authentication to access images uploaded to a Discourse server

What would you like done? We would like a plugin written that, when enabled, provides a tick box for site admins like the existing “prevent anons from downloading files” option but for images. When ticked this would prevent non-authenticated, anon users from accessing images that are uploaded: Account Profile Picture Account Profile Background Account User Card Background Any image embedded in a Post apart from images posted as attachments to the automatically created “Assets for the site de…