09-18-2005, 05:08 AM
Bolty,Sep 17 2005, 01:23 PM Wrote:I don't get it. You're talking about a smiley that comes from an external source, namely "i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcons/emoticons/evilgrin/evil9.gif". I don't have control of whether or not that will appear...
-Bolty
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Just to elaborate on this, you are trying to leech an image from imdb.com. Unless the people running imdb.com are incredibly stupid, they have configured their website to not allow this. Why should imdb.com pay the bandwidth fees for one of their images to appear here?
If you really want the image to appear here, you'll either have to save it and upload it to a free image hosting service or use your own webspace. I've ranted about the dangers of hotlinking images from external sources ("leeching") in the past.
(I apologise if I sounded rude here. I just don't know a polite way to say what i just said)
Bolty, have you given thought to a lounge image uploader? I don't know how much bandwidth you are allotted or if you have any extra to spare for such a utility, but if you modified your .htaccess file to not allow offsite leechers (which I'm sure you've done already) it might not be that big of a bandwidth hit. You could even configure it to not show lounge hosted images in the forums to unregistered members to save bandwidth.