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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Thorn on July 02, 2002, 10:53:47 pm

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Thorn on July 02, 2002, 10:53:47 pm

Found this on another forum.

This is a trick that works with GeoCities and other free hosting sites. As most of you know, they dont allow direct linking to images.

This can be bypassed if you change the extension from, say, GIF or JPG to TXT and then pasting the url into the post with the regular IMG tags around it.

That way the image should show.

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Carl on July 02, 2002, 10:59:14 pm

test:

normal (http://www.angelfire.com/al/megapcgames/images/titlebar.jpg)

special (http://www.angelfire.com/al/megapcgames/images/titlebar.TXT)

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Carl on July 02, 2002, 11:00:32 pm

nope.

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Dr.Zer0 on July 02, 2002, 11:40:54 pm

I thought that was a new sneaky way to get it :doubt:

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Thorn on July 02, 2002, 11:57:51 pm

funny.. worked before..

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Dr.Zer0 on July 03, 2002, 12:30:37 am

Quote

Originally posted by Thorn
funny.. worked before..

yeah funny :lol::lol::lol::wakka::lol::lol::lol:
must... stop... laughing... at... irony...  err :lol: :lol: :wakka:

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Shrike on July 03, 2002, 12:45:31 am

Quote

Originally posted by Carl
test:

normal (http://www.angelfire.com/al/megapcgames/images/titlebar.jpg)

special (http://www.angelfire.com/al/megapcgames/images/titlebar.TXT)

Considering that the titlebar.txt doesn't seem to exist on the server..... I wonder why it's not working. :p

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: vyper on July 03, 2002, 07:34:03 am

(http://free.hostdepartment.com/maelstrom/SIG.TXT)

:doubt:

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: CODEDOG ND on July 03, 2002, 01:53:10 pm

on angelfire you used to be able to turn it into a .html file but now they got that fixed as well.  :(

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Black Wolf on July 05, 2002, 04:24:54 am

It generally (about 85% of the time) works nicely for me. Practically all non NTV images I post are hosted on geocities and I use this trick.

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Megadude on August 02, 2002, 10:37:18 pm

i just create a simple web page and post the picture on it.  It doen't take but a minute (seriously)

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Megadude on August 02, 2002, 10:39:33 pm

why did i post in a moth old thread

:smacks myself:

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: vyper on August 03, 2002, 05:23:21 am

Quote

Originally posted by Megadude
why did i post in a moth old thread

:smacks myself:

*points and mocks*
...anyway....


Tripod:




Geocities:

Title: Tip for Geocities/Angelfire/etc users.
Post by: Tiara on August 03, 2002, 05:29:50 am

Cool, it works!