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Robbie
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 Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject: A few tweaks |
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Greetings!
If anyone has any links from their homepage to download their stories or the banners, you may notice these links don't work anymore. If this is a problem, let us know and we can see how we can accommodate you.
Fuller details:
We've added a few changes that none of you should even notice. We've prevented users from hotlinking directly to the site - in other words, stopped them from putting material on their website and claiming it as their own. We don't think this is happenning, but if we start to host more material, it may become a problem.
This is not foolproof (by a long way) and anything on the Internet should be considered "public" but it's a small step to keeping bandwidth down.
Oh, we're going to add more smilies too....
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Maram68
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Robbie,
I am afraid I must say that I hotlinked  some of my recommended stories (will change that ASAP) but I checked the links on my site and they are still working wonderfully ....
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Robbie
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Hotlinking to the stories as you have done will continue to work - these story pages are still branded as "openscrolls".
The page that I have stopped the hotlinking too is the "download" page, where the stories are not branded. It is relatively easy for someone to pass this off as their own.
No need to change anything at your end!. I hope that explains what I've done.
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Maram68
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well ... okaaaaaaaay ... bear my net ignorance !!!
Thanks for all the hard work, Robbie, the one who thinks .......
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AnnaKuryakina
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Location: Belgium
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 10:39 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
After reading your message I'm beginning to understand the funny stuff I get on my computer now. Instead of images, "any images", I get little and big squares saying "hotlinking from www.openscrolls.net is not permitted".
Where is the yummy pic of Orlando? All I can see is squares!
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Anna,
Can you let us know which ISP you're using and what type of browser?
In technical lingo, you are not revealing your referrer details to our website, which is why you can no longer see the graphics. (We've just hyped up security to prevent hotlinking.) There is no reason for you to block the referrer details, but some employment places do as well as firewalls.
I'll get Robbie to have a look at this once we get an answer from you.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
do.
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AnnaKuryakina
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I have IE 6. something and windows 2000. Up until yesterday everything was fine, but now, it's all little squares!
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Robbie
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Anna,
I've made a change - can you let me know if all is working, please. Otherwise I'll just try again!
Rob
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AnnaKuryakina
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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Rob, it's working again now, whatever you did, it was the right thing!
Thanks
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