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CYOA linked an image that has a permissions thing on it.

The link is:
http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/503089275.jpg?Expires=1327580358&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=Vhx%7EUJyLMQuy7pl0oeNCoz8Trt1b-L8PCDiUKsAayPGvpcY7C5WgYBAP3ZQ2ZKzCzr3WuBWa8zG7JNDmcYB1S25OkfociZEbaxG5BfbuoYSSoZtVoakrN9hZcGoPZYvbL9QmN-RrAm1L6fVvjfUubTBwb8B3IY3YlnfIaaD1ii4_

Which goes to access denied.

The link both has an expiry instruction (won't work after some time), and has a permissions key to it.

CYOA is dumb... should attach images instead.

That CYOA's image worked and works for me now.
Attaching not.

CYOA's image must be cached in your browser from when he first posted it.

I can assure you, it's not there.

Come on people (all those reporting this, PMing me and mentioning it), you know how the internet works right?

You'll find broken images if:

• The images no longer exist at the server that hosted them (old threads have this a lot)
  
• People put in the URL of a file on their computer (C:\path\to\image.jpg)
  
• People put in the URL of a file that is security protected (http://hotmail.com/myinbox/image.jpg)
  
• People put in the URL of a page rather than an image file (http://flickr.com/page/with/my/photo/)
  
  

That's all.

It's not a problem with the forum, the software works fine, the internet isn't broken... just, people are posting broken links, links that won't work for others.

Tell them to fix it. Tell them up attach an image. Or to put it in a Dropbox public folder and link to it. Tell them to do anything except those things above which is what they've probably done.

I sometimes see posts with absolutely nothing in the reply, not even a . Here's an example of one from the picture association thread which I would have thought contained a picture - http://www.lfgss.com/post2652001-1403.html

Are you on a work pc with firewalls in place?

Can you see something then? The rest of that page is full of images but nothing in that particular post.
I'm on my own laptop in my office but it's my business with my internets.
(BT Broadband, Windows 7, Firefox, Avast)

Nah. Just get an icon

I sometimes see posts with absolutely nothing in the reply, not even a . Here's an example of one from the picture association thread which I would have thought contained a picture - http://www.lfgss.com/post2652001-1403.html

Use https https://www.lfgss.com/post2652001-1403.html

^^I've right clicked on the page and opened up 'view page info' and under media I have found the link to the cocoon picture that is presumably what I can't see. That opens in a new tab with a simple copy / paste action with no warnings, etc. So why is the image not visible in the thread?

^^That seems to work but how - in english idealy...

https://www.lfgss.com/thread3263.html or search forum for Velocio's posts on SSL/https.

CYOA's image must be cached in your browser from when he first posted it.

You are right. My browser's been opened for the last week.

https://www.lfgss.com/thread3263.html or search forum for Velocio's posts on SSL/https.

Started reading that thread and after the first few lines decided to accept that it's not always really neccessary to know how stuff works. Sometimes it's fine to just accept it does.

Could I request that my email address be removed from this old post please:

http://www.lfgss.com/post1063266-2.html

Many thanks!

I sometimes see posts with absolutely nothing in the reply, not even a . Here's an example of one from the picture association thread which I would have thought contained a picture - http://www.lfgss.com/post2652001-1403.html

^^That seems to work but how - in english idealy...

The image in that post is here:
http://www.impawards.com/1985/posters/cocoon.jpg

Basically, that site is trying to stop people "stealing" their bandwidth. A ludicrous idea in any case... but the way they've gone about it is to say: If someone requests this image and they're on impawards.com, serve the image... otherwise don't serve the image.

Now this is all based on the idea that from one web page to another, the browser sends the request like this: I just came from this page, and was told to come here.

That is, the web browser sends information about where you are, or have just been... this is called referrer information.

A useful example of referrer information: If you're on Google and you have done a search and you clicked through to a site (such as lfgss.com) then it's possible for the site to see that you'd been on Google, and because I'd see the URL I'd also see the search terms that you'd used... perhaps you'd Googled for "dolan track bike", and perhaps seeing that, I highlighted those terms on my page, or suggested a search for you (pre-populating it with those terms).

That's useful.

A bad use of referrer information might be an advertising company on a web page that sees that you were looking for dolan track bikes, and because they have Trek paying them, they plaster your whole page with adverts for Trek. Good for them, they know you're looking for bikes, but bad for you, as you have less privacy and they'll make your browser remember this shit for future.

Now... how is that image broken?

Well, when you use http:// on lfgss.com referrer information gets sent... so they know it comes from lfgss.com and not impawards.com and so they say, "Nah-uh, I'm not serving that image.". And we get broken images.

But what if you use https:// on lfgss.com? Different thing... the 's' in https is for 'secure'. And yes that means encrypted, but it also does other things, like telling your browser not to store things locally, and far more importantly in this case it tells your browser to not tell other sites where you've come from.

So... when you use https:// you get to see images on remote sites that people try and protect with referrer checking. And when you use http:// you don't see them, as remote sites will know that you've come from here and they're blocking all remote sites.

That's about as plain English as I can get on the matter.

tl;dr

Could I request that my email address be removed from this old post please:

http://www.lfgss.com/post1063266-2.html

Many thanks!

Done, but pointless. Virtually no spammers bother crawling the web for emails nowadays, and Gmail spam filters are so good that you shouldn't subsequently see spam.

If you feel you're being spammed, it's far more likely that some company sold your email address.

tl;dr

Shit happens. But https:// on lfgss.com will make less shit happen

Much better.

That's about as plain English as I can get on the matter.

So if someone searches for Create you can tell them to feck off and send somewhere else, right?

I could, yeah.

Back when the Pendleton thread started, I did see that for a while "naked victoria pendleton" was the #1 search on Google that led here.

is there any plans to add the current projects to the forums tab at the top please? bugs me that i have to go back to the main page every time

I want names. Curious who registered on LFGSS thanks to his or her lust for Pednleton.

is there any plans to add the current projects to the forums tab at the top please? bugs me that i have to go back to the main page every time

Yes.

I've got to change the navigation... there isn't the space to add CP to it given that the site has to work for people with smaller screens.

So I'm going to swap that out for drop downs and add it then.

It will be done next week.