JasonG Posted June 17, 2019 Author Posted June 17, 2019 Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo........ Thanks for the heads up @Marcus Russi ....I hope @jon figures out what the deal is. Quote
Marcus Russi Posted June 17, 2019 Posted June 17, 2019 (edited) Edit: Don't want to hijack this thread so I'm moving this to cc.news. The workaround I'm flying to Seatac tomorrow for a few weeks of Cascades fun, so this issue has been bugging me while I've been trying to research various routes. I developed a workaround that will at least allow you to download the photos for any TR that has broken images. If you have have a Unix-based environment with GNU Parallel installed and know how to use Bash or another terminal, I wrote a short script that takes as input a cascadeclimbers.com TR URL and transforms the broken links into ones that work. Then, it saves the images into your working directory. I've tried it with this TR and a few other ones with broken images and it appears to work as advertised. get_tr_pics.sh Example usage: The issue The issue appears to involve the "image proxy" of Invision, the software that runs the forum. As I understand it, the "image proxy" takes the URL of an image and fetches it through the server (rather than having your computer connect directly to the website), then forwards the image on to the user. It appears that a large subset of URLs for images that are hosted on cascadeclimbers.com, but nevertheless get routed through the proxy, either don't work anymore (are "dead links"), aren't compatible with the URL format the proxy expects, (http vs. https, www vs. no www, etc.), or both. I think all of the images are still living on the server, but they're not accessible through the forum's image proxy, which means you have to get the original, un-proxied URL yourself, and request that directly from the site. To see this in action yourself, instead of using my script, take a broken URL like the following: Quote https://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/500/2017BakertoRoss30558.JPG&key=6cce38faa871c887d4297fc823deebfcdbe3ed70d68d9ab24c5613791ebf6c90 Extract the original URL, pre-proxy: Quote http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/500/2017BakertoRoss30558.JPG Replace http with https, and remove the www.: Quote https://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/500/2017BakertoRoss30558.JPG And you will be able to get the pretty photo. Edited June 17, 2019 by Marcus Russi Moving to cc.news Quote
JasonG Posted June 17, 2019 Author Posted June 17, 2019 Woah. This seems like a lot of work for a Luddite like me. Got that @jon? Quote
emilio taiveaho pelaez Posted March 25 Posted March 25 I don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but @JasonG I hope at some point you put together a coffee-table photo book.. absolutely amazing photos of the best places on earth. Really appreciate you sharing them here, it's a great gift. really leaves me homesick to get back into choss-land... summer's coming soon enough & your photos are carrying me through the wait. Quote
sepultura Posted Tuesday at 11:29 PM Posted Tuesday at 11:29 PM Yeah JG, when we get the coffee table book? Been asking for years now. Quote
JasonG Posted Wednesday at 02:01 AM Author Posted Wednesday at 02:01 AM Well, @John_Scurlock told me to steer clear of books but maybe I might try next November? I'll have to look into what it would cost and what I would have to charge to sell a few copies. Maybe @olyclimber can create a poll to see how many copies I could expect to sell? I do know that I would have limited appeal outside of the North Cascades. Thanks for the encouragement @sepultura and @emilio taiveaho pelaez! Choss-land is calling you both! Quote
plexus Posted Wednesday at 10:28 PM Posted Wednesday at 10:28 PM That pick from N Despair... that there is a beaut. Quote
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