Links to Photobucket photos

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Ian Roberts
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Links to Photobucket photos

Post by Ian Roberts »

The forum no longer allows direct links to my photobucket files, this is something new in the last month or so.
Is this a change in the FOTR site or an inyernet issue?
Ian
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Re: Links to Photobucket photos

Post by Kevin Wilson-Smith »

Ian

No change to anything on this site I am aware of.

I am In Kruger at the moment so cannot do a full check, but will do so on my return in 10 days. Am able to access mail only at the moment.

Cheers
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Steve Appleton
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Re: Links to Photobucket photos

Post by Steve Appleton »

I am also not aware of any configuration change. However, it might be related to a software re-install I did following the FOTR website hacking that happened about two weeks ago. I will take a closer look over the next day or two.
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Ian Roberts
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Re: Links to Photobucket photos

Post by Ian Roberts »

If I use the direct image entry which worked in the past

{img}http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll17 ... a.jpg{/img}

I now get the following message

It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image.

Please note the [] changed to{} to allow this to enter as an example

If I use the link only

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll17 ... r-764a.jpg

This will allow access, but only after clicking the link.

The size of the picture itself is within the forum limits.

Hope this will help in the diagnosis
Ian
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Re: Links to Photobucket photos

Post by John Ashworth »

Thanks, Ian. Actually I started getting the same error message when I tried posting thumbnails from Railpictures.Net leading to the full size photo. I found that if I just posted the link to the full size photo, rather than the thumbnail, it worked. Strange.
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Derek Walker
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Re: Links to Photobucket photos

Post by Derek Walker »

Maybe they have disabled hot linking.
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