image problem

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:03 pm

hey, i found that with this image hosting thing that if i click it to expand the pic i just get a link and no pic ever comes up

Post by **Big Kev** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:52 pm

Might be people editing the code it puts into the post.
If you leave it as it is it should work fine.

Got an example of a post that's doing it?

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:20 am

ure post just then doesnt work
heres a screenshot of what it looks like when i click it

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/9186/prob9ue.jpg

w00dsy · Post by **w00dsy** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:04 am

are you running any sort of adblockers in Firefox?

ysu · Post by **ysu** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:56 am

Shaun wrote:ure post just then doesnt work
heres a screenshot of what it looks like when i click it

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/9186/prob9ue.jpg

Could the referrer reporting be swithced off, Shaun? I'm sure they're checking it, and that might cause them not to display the image.
What browser/system/versions you're using?

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:41 pm

what do u mean refferer reporting?
woodsy i have just got the normal firefox popup blocker thats built into it
im running firefox 1.5.0.1
xp pro sp2

ysu · Post by **ysu** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:56 pm

Shaun wrote:what do u mean refferer reporting?
woodsy i have just got the normal firefox popup blocker thats built into it
im running firefox 1.5.0.1
xp pro sp2

The HTTP_REFERRER is what I mean. It usually contains the page's address where you've come from, and can be checked against outside linking. Seems they do it too. And it can be disabled in some browsers and can be faked in some download clients too iirc.

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:56 pm

so what do u think i should do?

ysu · Post by **ysu** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:25 pm

Shaun wrote:so what do u think i should do?

Well, as a start you could try another browser.
If you haven't tampered with the settings too much referrer isn't likely to be the problem.
Maybe the blocker is playing up? Try disabling it for a test...

Edit: then images may be displayed from cache. Sometimes browsers do funny things and don't refresh a wrongly cached image - so after emptying the cache it may magically just work...

There are many things that can go wrong.

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:42 pm

all the pics work in IE, this is extremely wierd