Webshot have pinched mi car!

[Spooky]

Anyone else use Webshot to host their piccies. I've just done it, and the link worked and the piccy appeared. Then it disappeared, and it seems I have to go to Webshot, click on refresh to get the picture appearing on that site, and them it magically appears on PH.

It's probably me being a numpty, but what am I doing wrong?

[PetrolTed]

I thought perhaps they were doing something to prevent embedding pictures but I can see it in your profile without going to Webshots first. I'm a bit baffled

[Spooky]

Ted, do you mean you can see the actual picture, or just the frame with the red cross in the top left where the picture is supposed to be? I can't see it on the profile, nor on the "Show us your 'Lises" thread.

[cmdar]

If I go to Spooky's profile I get the red cross.

If I then look at the source and get the URL for the image, go there, and then go back to the profile I get the image (because the image is in my local cache, therefore no need to really get it). If I refresh the profile page (i.e. empty cache) then the image is back to the red cross.

This affect occurs in both IE6 and Netscape6.2

Are they blocking referred access to the image? i.e. if the page request for the image has a HTTP_REFERER value other than webshots.com (as an embedded link would), then sod off you can't have it.



>> Edited by cmdar on Thursday 29th August 14:53

>> Edited by cmdar on Thursday 29th August 14:55

[PetrolTed]

OK, I'll get to work on plan B!

[cmdar]

Just done a quick test to see if my idea was correct, and it seems to be.

If you create a test HTML page on your local PC disk (say test.htm) with just
<IMG src="http://community.webshots.com/storage/1/v0/7/31/15/48673115YAJspP_ph.jpg>|http://community.webshots.com/storage/1/v0/7/31/15/48673115YAJspP_ph.jpg">

and load it in IE direct from your disk you will get the image OK.

Now if you put test.htm on a webserver and load it in, no image.

When its on the server the full HTTP header including HTTP_REFERER is sent (with the host name of your server in it). When you open it direct from disk, no HTTP_REFERER is sent (or at least it's blank).

So they are being sneaky :-(



>> Edited by cmdar on Thursday 29th August 15:06

>> Edited by cmdar on Thursday 29th August 15:07

[PetrolTed]

I'll do some sums and see if I can provide hosting for each member's car.

[Spooky]

Ted, don't do that just coz of me. Is fotango.com any better?

[PetrolTed]

Fotango doesn't suffer this problem but is a bit more fiddly to use.

[incorrigible]

Personally I like fotango,

You can send them 35mm films to process too, they send you the prints and create an album on the web for you

More complicated, but more features too

[Fatboy]

Fotango is a piece of piss to use! Even I managed it without getting stressed

Edited cos I can't spell

>> Edited by Fatboy on Thursday 29th August 16:29