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Post by edwardsutorik on Apr 19, 2020 16:21:05 GMT -8
I thought it appropriate to start another variant on "Can't add photos".
I've tried adding a picture (in the topic "Review: Rapido SP&S FA-2"), and all I get is the blue question mark.
I know the link works, because I've posted THAT on the forum, and it's active. When I first tried posting the picture, and got the question mark, I tried repeated variants of formatting and nothing worked. So I just went to posting an active link, which does.
Just now, I had a thought. I copied a picture format link from an existing picture on the forum that DOES work. Then I emptied out the guts and replaced it with the info from MY picture. Still got the blue question mark.
I am having trouble seeing what I'm doing wrong.
So I'll post the matter here, hoping to get guidance. And a solution.
It happened to me at least twice in this topic.
Ed
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Apr 19, 2020 23:57:25 GMT -8
Who's hosting the photos? I had a case where I embedded one photo in an answer and it worked fine. I edited my post and added another, and both stopped working. Both images were hosted by railpictures.net
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Post by jonklein611 on Apr 20, 2020 5:51:33 GMT -8
Who's hosting the photos? I had a case where I embedded one photo in an answer and it worked fine. I edited my post and added another, and both stopped working. Both images were hosted by railpictures.net I believe railpictures.net prohibits hotlinking.
Just link a url to the page, not the image file.
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Apr 20, 2020 6:06:32 GMT -8
Who's hosting the photos? I had a case where I embedded one photo in an answer and it worked fine. I edited my post and added another, and both stopped working. Both images were hosted by railpictures.net I believe railpictures.net prohibits hotlinking. Just link a url to the page, not the image file.
Yeah, I get that. Still, one image did show up in-line, hotlinked. Test:
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Post by jonklein611 on Apr 20, 2020 7:04:54 GMT -8
I believe railpictures.net prohibits hotlinking. Just link a url to the page, not the image file.
Yeah, I get that. Still, one image did show up in-line, hotlinked. Test: Nothing shows up.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Apr 20, 2020 7:48:56 GMT -8
Thanks. I'll have to investigate hotlinking. I've seen it come up before.
For now, I'll just keep checking my newly-submitted posts for the blue question mark. If I see it, I'll replace it with the link.
Ed
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Apr 21, 2020 3:05:08 GMT -8
Yeah, I get that. Still, one image did show up in-line, hotlinked. Test: Nothing shows up. And, again, it did at first. But not now anymore. I know that the site in question doesn't support hotlinking, but it shows that someone can post something and think it's OK while it won't be OK moments later.
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Post by edwardsutorik on May 5, 2020 6:08:52 GMT -8
Follow up:
I'm pretty sure my problem is the hotlinking one. I contacted the web hosting company where the site is that I wanted to post, and they said they don't allow it. I know they DID, so it looks like the blue question mark will become more common.
Ed
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