Cakephp Access of files

I'm currently working on a community-like page, where gallery-images
exists. These images should not be accessed to anyone not logged in to
the community, for example, no one should be able to write
http://myhost/images/image1.jpg when not logged in.

I first thought of using .htaccess for that specific image-folder in
webroot, but then each user have to fill in this user/password as well
(as his login/pass to the site itself), and that seems a little
annoying. But that could be an option.

Instead I put all images outside the webroot-folder (in /app/images/),
and access them via the Media View (see Views in Cakephp Manual). This
works fine, but performance is really slow, since it takes a php-
action call for every image loaded (e.g. /Images/getImage/31), and
when showing 30 thumbnails this takes some time.

I would like to point directly to the image (for performance reasons).
Anyone out there knows of a better way to "protect" files from anyone
not logged in to the site?

Thank you.

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