Hot Link Issues

[halloweenpropshop]

Hi,

 

I have had a couple of people tell me that they cannot see any graphics on my site when using browsers FF or IE7.x. When I turn off Hot Link Protection they can see the graphics.

 

How/why is this possible?

 

1) I use FP2003 so every time I want to update my site I must turn OFF Hot LINK Protection, upload my changes, then turn Hot Link back on.

 

2) It appears that during one of these ON/OFF cycles the problem began. We both traded banner links, after I updated my site they could not see the graphics anymore.

 

 

Any ideas why they cannot see any graphics on my site?

 

Also, could some of you please visit my site and tell me of you can see the graphics from the links area. Here is the link...

 

http://www.halloweenpropshop.com/halloween..._exchange_1.htm

 

Please let me know where you are State/Prov & country so I can try to determine if it is a localized issue.

 

 

Off topic, what forum software is this and is it available for "US" to use at no charge?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

 

Ron

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums Ron

 

I can see the banners and I am in Ohio.

 

I do not use the hot link protection so I cannot comment on it's use.

 

As for the forum software, this is Invision Power Board. They used to offer a free version but have not done so in many years.

[TCH-Don]

I see them in Michigan.

 

Hotlink in cpanel is intermitent

When it quits working no images will display.

I gave up on it.

[halloweenpropshop]

I see them in Michigan.

 

Hotlink in cpanel is intermitent

When it quits working no images will display.

I gave up on it.

 

 

Hi,

 

When these people said they could not see the graphics I was able, even flushed my browsers then made sure to do manual refresh. I was instant messaging with 1 of these 2 people so we were very near real time on screen refreshes.

 

How is it possible that I could and he could not, I would think Hot Link either works or does not.

 

Any other thoughts?

 

Thanks

 

Ron

[TCH-Bruce]

Hotlinking is designed to prevent people from stealing your bandwidth and using your images on their sites. Since Don and I went to a page on your site we were able to see the images. What link was the person having issues using to access the images?

 

If they were going to the same link you provided here they should be able to see them. Unles they are running something on their computer preventing the banners from displaying. Like Norton or AdBlocker.

[halloweenpropshop]

Hotlinking is designed to prevent people from stealing your bandwidth and using your images on their sites. Since Don and I went to a page on your site we were able to see the images. What link was the person having issues using to access the images?

 

If they were going to the same link you provided here they should be able to see them. Unles they are running something on their computer preventing the banners from displaying. Like Norton or AdBlocker.

 

 

Hi,

 

I have hot link enabled as I have added many animated gifs, wav's, fonts, and midi files. These files are there for people to download. I enabled Hot Link to prevent others web sites from linking directly to them and using my bandwidth.

 

 

I was able to reproduce the problem by using a free anonymous web surfing site. With Hot Link enabled I saw NO graphics at all, then I disabled Hot Link, flushed browser and did manual refresh I saw all graphics. Re-enabled Hot Link and all graphics were gone again. I closed my browser (left anonymous surf site), opened it up again and typed my URL in manually and graphics were back.

 

I have tried several different anonymous surfing sites, some seem to work fine, but extremely slow. Others cause different problems such as, Hot link enabled 1) no graphics displayed 2) background theme colors gone from FP2003 but some theme graphics there.

 

Any ideas as to why this is the case?

 

Thanks

 

Ron

Edited March 20, 2007 by halloweenpropshop