rbw1966 Posted May 13, 2004 Posted May 13, 2004 Anyone know why I can't see the icons? I can read posts but the beer drinking gremlins and icons are all blocked out. I've already deleted my cookies and cleaned out my cache. Quote
catbirdseat Posted May 13, 2004 Posted May 13, 2004 I think it must have something to do with the hacker. Quote
chucK Posted May 13, 2004 Posted May 13, 2004 Same thing's happening with me too. Only on my home computer (XP), not on "other" computer (2000) Quote
jon Posted May 13, 2004 Posted May 13, 2004 We have run into the problem of people "stealing" our images off of our server. They really aren't stealing the images, just our bandwidth. There are a lot of message boards doing this, especially users here that use other boards in addition to here. So we are looking at ways of blocking this and apparently there are some problems with our current method. Quote
rbw1966 Posted May 13, 2004 Author Posted May 13, 2004 Thanks for the heads up. Anything I can do to restore the icons and gremlins? Quote
jon Posted May 13, 2004 Posted May 13, 2004 My guess is for some people who are connecting from home, that their ISP is caching some of the images on their servers, and is the root of the problem, so there isn't much you can do about it. We'll most likely try something else. Quote
rbw1966 Posted May 14, 2004 Author Posted May 14, 2004 I do most of my spraying from work so its possible I suppose. It just happened a couple days ago though. Its really impeding my spray experience. Quote
gapertimmy Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 it might be a firewall issue, it is how the image is referrenced from the web server. as long as the originating request is from *.cascadeclimbers.com it will work fine. i think it might be more of a problem if your company or ISP has a caching system like microsoft's fantastic Proxy Server! Quote
Ducknut Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 Well I am having the same problem. Have cleared the local caches and cookies but still have the problem. I don't have the same problem with other BBs that I checked. Quote
gapertimmy Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 as jon said, we put a file inside particular directories that makes it so folks can't 'hotlink' images. that is when you take an image hosted on another server and use it on a different webpage hosted on a different server. this practice is heavily used here at cc.com, but it actually steals bandwidth, which costs $ from our server. the fact that it is affecting only a few folks here on the site leads me to believe that your upstream provider or place of employement might be caching content on a server to speed things up, which in turn creates the problem. but then again i don't know jackshnizzle! Quote
badvoodoo Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 Personal firewalls (BlackIce, Norton Internet Security, etc.) can also cause this, I'm assuming because of the proxying service they use. If you're using one, disable it and reload the page to check. Not sure that there's a workaround, since desktop firewalls don't give much control over the access methods. Quote
badvoodoo Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 Oh, and I nominate copying this page for the "stophotlinking.html" redirect page. Quote
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