Two bad your images are borked. :p

Too bad you're internet is messed up, 'cause it works for me, and it's not geocities or anything.

Yeah I checked the url, and right clicked. Weird.

You are image doesn't show up for me either (over their)

Damn Interlink censors. Scott must have hacked through it like a Chinese porn surfer.

Yure a chinese porn surfer.

Well, it's Kevin's Hammer GIF, but w/o the grammar reference... i.e. the orginal one. But I'm too lazy to rehost it.

Leave Yuri out of this.

Hahahahaha wow. Imma retard. At least I'm not the only one.

It "red X'd" on me too, but if I paste the url into a new browser it shows up.

Is there a good way to know if an image you find on a google search is "hot linkable" (if that's the proper term)? I mean is there any way to know if you're going to post a red X beforehand? Would the Preview Post function be definitive for this?

Because it seems like once you view the pic, the browser caches it and you get the image instead of the red X, so how can you really know unless you post it and it gets viewed on another computer? I guess you could post PM it to yourself and open it in a different browser (IE: Firefox, etc.) but that just seems like too much work.

Just somthing I've always wondered and you guys seem bored and nerdy... :P

All I see is blank space.

If the image is cached in your browser it will show up in preview even if the rest of us get das X.

I know, so how can you know ahead of time?

I used a period instead of a question mark here:
oops.

ha. that site has bandwidth issues now.

They're there their, now...

Help where am I?

In grammar hell.

You guys suck.

here you go Cody, just made this for ya :P now you can tell if a hotlink will work or not
http://ridelaketahoe.com/alex/hotlinktest.asp

And i just ordered those in 19's ;) 25 lbs a rim though :( don't think i'll autoX on these... i think you guys will like it when i roll up with a SECCS logo in my rims ;)

I don't think that helps since I couldn't see Sperry's MChammer using your tool (shutup) until I copied and pasted its URL into a new window (which makes it visible and cached) and then using your tool (I said shutup) I could see it. How is using that tool any different than using post preview?

the fact that you couldn't see it right away ment that it couldn't be hotlinked.

its different becuase when your web Client goes to load the image file, it will send in an http 1.1 header called REFERER which will be www.ridelaketahoe.com/alex/hotlinktest.asp and if the web server has some specific blocking method for calls with referer's that are not one of their domains it will be blocked.

if you open the image in a new window the file will be called with out a REFERER , actual http 1.1 headers look something like
HTTP/1.1
GET /images/mypictures.jpg
User-Agent: Mozilla
REferer: http://www.blahblahblah.com/
etc etc


sounds like you need to adjust your caching setting on your browser. lol i should have done that for you when i was over yesterday. lol :P set your browser to always check for a current copy. (also learn that manual cache del button)

;)

alrighty then. :cool: