Me so bad! Or… fun with hotlinkers
A stroll through my web server stats showed me that someone is, again, hotlinking to one of my images. I have the main image directory set up with htaccess, but apparently, I forgot to do one for the Coppermine gallery (which is nearing its demise, now that EE has its own photo gallery). So... I just had to fix this right up.The hotlinker this time, is a forum participant. I have no idea what it's about because it's in French. No matter... with the help of Babelfish, Google images and a few minutes with Paint Shop Pro, I had a suitable replacement image. Suitable, that is, if you have a vicious evil streak, like yours truly.
The stolen image is that of my kitty Faith, caught mid-yawn... I titled it "Laughing Kitty" and it's one of the more popular pictures in the gallery. What I replaced it with is a different sort of pussy altogether... along with a stern admonishment both in English and French. See it here... or check out a screen shot of the page here.
I am SO bad! Heh ...
Posted by LissaKay on 04/28/05 at 04:21 AM in
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I fixed the link to the screenie. I see the replacement pic on the forum with both browsers I have here at work, Firefox and IE6. I have heard from some people that certain security tools will overcome or block htaccess files. Try refreshing the page...
Other than that *shrug*
Other than that *shrug*
Posted by LissaKay on 04/28 at 03:41 PM
I guess I am hallucinating then. My co-worker is too. Must be something in the water. When I get home, I will see if my son is hallucinating too.
Is anyone else having these hallucinations too?
Is anyone else having these hallucinations too?
Posted by LissaKay on 04/28 at 05:47 PM
After 6 refreshes the other pic showed up. Considering I've never been to the forum, nothing was in cache and there shouldn't have been no need for a refresh. It showed up in IE on the 3rd refresh.
Posted by Lynne on 04/28 at 05:56 PM
I'll bet they are using page caching... I have my browsers set to refresh pages on every load, which may be why I was getting the new image. Those htaccess files can be more of a pain than they are worth sometimes...
Posted by LissaKay on 04/28 at 06:04 PM
ah, ok. Yep, remember my htaccess, everyone was getting a page filled with the sweet lady giving the finger 
Posted by Lynne on 04/28 at 06:44 PM
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