[sindohte]

Rob,

Either I must be going mad or got a hold of a bad batch of lembas, but I am no longer able to see any of the graphics on the site (avatars, emoticons, etc.,). The only thing that I see plastered all over the site is a white box with blue text saying "Hotlinking from www.openscrolls.net is not permitted." Please tell me that something is going on with the site because if not, the alien implant in my head is acting up again.

Crazed & confused sindohte

[Robbie]

OK, which ISP are you using, and what type of browser?

(Technical stuff, you are not revealing your referrer details to the website. There is no reason for you to block this, but some employment places do.)

Meanwhile, I'll check some other stuff at my end.

Edit: Tracked down that you're using a regular ISP, Win 2000 and IE 6.0. Are you using a firewall or other device that stops referrer information from being sent?

Rob

[sindohte]

Rob,

I'm using Windows XP actually and Norton Internet Security Suite. This site is the only one that has been acting wonky when it comes to loading graphics. I'm actually posting this reply at work and for some reason all of the fancy network firewall security and what not isn't blocking the lovely graphics. Strange, very strange.

Let me know if I need to tweak my firewall software. I think it might have done an automatic update recently, which may be the cause of the problem.

Thanks,
sindohte

[Robbie]

It will be most likely be Norton doing something over zealous and totally unecessary (i.e. blocking referrer details). I'll look tonight (I'm off to work now) and try to fix it at our end first.

I know what needs to be done, just not sure exactly how to test it!

Thanks for letting me know so quickly.

[sindohte]

Yeah it definitely is Norton. When I turned off my Internet security portion of the software for a few minutes, then cleared out my cache, all of the beautiful images came back. Then I turned the software back on again and all the images disappeared again. Sigh definitely a Monday.

[Robbie]

OK, check the configuration file for anything related to browser and "hiding referrer". You're not doing yourself any favours by hiding that bit of information, you're just making life trickier for webmasters when accessing logfiles so they know how they can better handle customers.

(Don't stop running Norton Security, though. Internet security should be taken seriously.)

I'm still going to fix it, the two of you won't be the only ones affected. I may ask for your help to test it for me . But I'll fire off a Private Message when I'm ready so we don't clutter the forum.

Thanks for taking the time so far!