# Disallow anonymous users from viewing image & file URLs **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallow-anonymous-users-from-viewing-image-file-urls/40335 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [February 29, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallow-anonymous-users-from-viewing-image-file-urls/40335 "2016-02-29T15:55:44Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 13
### Author: ![chrisc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisc/32/119982_2.png) [@chrisc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chrisc) #### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallow-anonymous-users-from-viewing-image-file-urls/40335/13 "2017-10-25T13:13:00Z")
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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-job-create-a-plugin-to-require-authentication-to-access-images-uploaded-to-a-discourse-server/72758): > > 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 des… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallow-anonymous-users-from-viewing-image-file-urls/40335)._