[Petrarch of the VBB]

As many of you already know, my current webhost is a piece of crap, as when I try and post an image here I get, "REMOTE LINKING FORBIDDEN". Now, this is most annoying, and I want to know if anyone can suggest to me a decent host. I have tried freewebspace.com and geocities and they're both sh1te.

[an0n]

Wait a few days and a solution may present itself.

*goes to kick Kamikaze*

In the mean-time, PM me the links and I'll host 'em fer now. Or better yet, e-mail me the pics.

[Stryke 9]

I'd host you, but you'd have to pay for your portion of the webspace. And since I'm already sublet, that idea might not seem to attractive...

[Stealth]

try renaming the images to .TXT files and link to the .TXT files

otherwise apply for HLP hostin

[Stryke 9]

Yeah, brilliant idea. Can tell you use computers a lot.


If you name something a text file, you WILL get a text file. Not a picture- unless you tell someone to turn the downloaded file's tag to that of whatever type of image file you're using, which is even less convienient than posting the full, normal web address. I have no intention of rooting around in my cache, or spending ten minutes to download some picture into a specific file and changing the file tag, only to find that the damn thing got corrupted along the way.

[an0n]

Yes, normally renaming to txt would cause it to transfer as an ASCII file instead of a binary, but for some stupid reason (probably through their screwing with htaccess) this sometimes works.

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by an0n
Wait a few days and a solution may present itself.

*goes to kick Kamikaze*

not my fault

I might be able to host pictures if need be....

[Xelion]

Check this out...

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,10117.0.html

[Windrunner]

As i said in one thread before. Try www.freewebs.com. They are pretty good. You can find all the info and thier page.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Yeah, brilliant idea. Can tell you use computers a lot.


If you name something a text file, you WILL get a text file. Not a picture- unless you tell someone to turn the downloaded file's tag to that of whatever type of image file you're using, which is even less convienient than posting the full, normal web address. I have no intention of rooting around in my cache, or spending ten minutes to download some picture into a specific file and changing the file tag, only to find that the damn thing got corrupted along the way.

not true... on many 'FREE' hosting services you can rename a picture to a .TXT file, and then when you link to the .TXT file it displays the picture...  perhaps that doesn't work on MOST servers, but on a lot of free ones... it does!

0wnj00

[Stealth]

FYI:

This thread:  http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,9963.0.html

about halfway down... vyper posted this:
http://www.geocities.com/lionrampant31uk/capella.txt



that's a TEXT file i'm linking too btw... do you see ACSII?  I see the picture, i don't know about you

[vyper]

Gee, an argument settled and free p1mpage... wot more can a man ask?

And yes, all my posts with images use the txt "trick".

[Stealth]

Originally posted by vyper
Gee, an argument settled and free p1mpage... wot more can a man ask?

And yes, all my posts with images use the txt "trick".

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I have started using freewebs, now lets see if image linkage works,


No, BUGGER!
Can anyone see it?

[an0n]

I can see it, but for some reason I can see all anti-hotlink pics, even when people use Geocities.

[vyper]

Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
I have started using freewebs, now lets see if image linkage works,


No, BUGGER!
Can anyone see it?

try actually renaming it to a .txt and then try linking it.