[kde-linux] no Save Image As in Konqueror 3.5.10 with new eBay

[James Richard Tyrer]

Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> I am using KDE 3.5.10 on Fedora 8. As a hobbyist image collector I have 
> LOVED Konqueror because of its {File, Image} Save As dialog and its 
> previews.
> 
> eBay recently changed its listing pages. Whereas before images were 
> generally displayed in the Description area of the listing, now most 
> images appear to use a single popup window with a selector for multiple 
> images. The full-size image does not have a Save Image As option in its 
> right-click menu though the menu seems to be complete otherwise. 
> 
> How can that be? 

The HTML for the popup clearly has the link for the image.  However, it 
is embedded in a JavaScript function.

So, if you want the image, you are going to have to "View -> View 
Document Source" and pick out the URL for the image -- probably ends in 
JPG or jpg.  You will find two URLs for each image one of which is the 
thumbnail.

Alternatively, you can save the popup window as a Web Archive -- "Tools 
-> Archive Web Page.  The WAR file will contain the image.  There is no 
tool to open a WAR file to see the contents, but if you preview it in 
Konqueror and then click "Up" on the tool bar -- "Go -> Up" with the 
menu -- it will open.

Note that in either case, you need a MenuBar: "<Ctrl><M>" for the popup 
window.

This is not a short course in hacking, but the save WAR trick works with 
a lot of sites where they don't want you to be able to save the images.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch