Celebsdb hotlinking message

[PossumTater]

Now I am still kind of new at this and not very tech-smart. but all of the recent sudden i get tons of these Hotlinking messages instead of pictures. Am I doing something wrong or is there another solution?

Thanks

[butler bill]

Can you give us a link and the circumstances that produce these messages?

[PossumTater]

http://www.famousboard.com/celebsdb-...42.html#485738

This gives me a red box where you would normally have an image under your post. The box says "Hotlinking Sucks"


It really seems to happen with any image hosted on this board.

Thanks for helping!

[butler bill]

It is in your computer.
Try this
Log out
Delete your cookies
Log back in

[PossumTater]

I've cleared the cookies, even run CCleaner, tried another browser, and alas...

mocking red box reminding me how boad it sucks that I can't see the pictures

[butler bill]

I will pass this on to Admin.

[Rorax Falken]

You browser is sending bad referer, probably you are using some internet tool that's try to anonimyze your browser.
First, please user another browser and tell us if everything si ok.

[PossumTater]

Ok, I am feeling really stupid here. I have cleared the cache in each browser, made sure cookies were all deleted, ran ccleaner and tried two other browsers...alas, I am getting nothing here.

I apologize but I don't understand the concept of a "bad referer" yet. I'll look into it. But really, my laptop is running pretty basic stuff.

Any pointers are appreciated, and thanks for taking the time you all have.

[PossumTater]

Ok, it was a bad referrer. I found a firefox add-on that took care of it. Really, if it weren't for the problems I'd never learn anything

Thanks for your help.

[Turtle]

Damn! And there I was about to jump in and tell you what was wrong.

[dangerboy]

Any right-clicking on pics for me comes up with the HTML document file to save.... perhaps I need to jump thru a few hoops myself. I always used the old refresh trick here to get the file names and bypass the automatic .bmp, but this is a pain.

[butler bill]

Damn. Seems to be working fine for me

[echoes]

Any right-clicking on pics for me comes up with the HTML document file to save.... perhaps I need to jump thru a few hoops myself. I always used the old refresh trick here to get the file names and bypass the automatic .bmp, but this is a pain.

i have this issue too, i think its only with ff tho. but i think its far from a "major pain".

maybe someone should make a sticky about this issue, as a noob seems to post a new thread about it every few months...

[dangerboy]

maybe someone should make a sticky about this issue, as a noob seems to post a new thread about it every few months...

I think I'll take that as an insult.

The suggestion to "Save Page As.." thru Firefox would be gladly tried if right-clicking on a pic even offered that option!

No answers yet. Perhaps IE is the way to go.

[gryphondo]

The suggestion to "Save Page As.." thru Firefox would be gladly tried if right-clicking on a pic even offered that option!

Right clicking doesn't offer the "Save Page As" option. To get the "Save Page As" option, click "File" on the left hand corner of your Toolbar. Then save the pic as jpeg. I use Firefox and it works fine.