February 06, 2004

Paul Volker's Gallery of 1000 Beasts Well, 408 and counting. Individual beasts apparently not linkable? Can someone show me how?
posted by forksclovetofu 20 years ago
  • The individual beasts are just jpg files, right? Like this bat with a psychic waffle? Shouldn't be any problem linking to them.
  • kenko: click your linky there to see what my problem is.
  • I'm in mozilla, so no guarantees this'd work for anyone else. If you do drag n drop to open the link in the same window/tab then hit refresh it should show up. Should being of course the key phrase.
  • Forky's complaining about Tripod's anti-leeching measures. You can get around this by spoofing the site with Google, but it isn't really worth the hassle. E.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=http://members.tripod.com/wbfoto/wbb005.jpg&ref=http://wbfoto.tripod.com/noframes.html Depending on your browser, once you already have the jpg for an individual beast in your cache, a direct link to that beast will work. (So kenko might click on his own link, having already visited the main site once, and say, "See, it works.") At some point the cache will clear, whereupon the direct link won't work, because your browser will then hit Tripod's anti-leeching layer.
  • i was just discussing this over in spofi: leeching? I'm a relative noob when it comes to BBS and blogging... how can i host my own images? am i obliged to pay for it? should i already know this stuff? /poor excuse for a nerd...
  • Yeah, it's all about who pays for it. To host your own images, put a copy of them - that's a copy of the jpg (or whatever) file containing the image data - on some server for which you pay the bandwidth bills (either directly or indirectly). You have a blog somewhere, so you must have some server space associated with it, and I presume an "upload file" function that allows you to put an image file therein. Then reference the image off of your own blogspace. E.g., http://tofuhut.somebloghost.net/wbb005.jpg Your host probably has some space or bandwidth restrictions, set forth in their TOS, so take down the image after a decent amount of time.
  • psst!
  • it's a blogger site. and I _do_ have an and one account... i got it because i had a premonition it might prove useful. what i need to do is set aside a day or two and figure out how to do the leg work. thanks for the info, gents.