Is he trying to link from the hard drive to his post or from an actual page to his post?

 

from a page. from my email. stupid me. i know i can use nopistons.net. i do it all the time. i was just curious if it would work. the pic shows up on the screen when i open the mail isent myself. not knowing **** about computers i thought this may "count" as it being hosted by hotmail/msn.

GEEKS!

 

its on their server but you cannot directly access it

 

so: impossible? right?

 

cumputer? Is that a special **** finding pc?

 

funny.... that is my best typo yet...

 

You are likely giving it a URL which contains encoded CGI data, such as:



foo.com?foo=bar&bar=foo



it will detect this and bitch, it doesnt want you to give it links into some other web sites cgi program that is currently outputting a image, likely because this is considered *dynamic* content, and what does dynamic content mean? It will likely change. This is to avoid linking something that will likely stop returning the image at some point because something changed on that web sites dynamic content.



What you should do is get the image uploaded somewhere that it can be stored statically (where you can just reach it as the file, not through some cgi interface that serves up images as part of an album or other web site component).



You can click on the link in your email because your web browser doesnt give a **** if the URL references dynamic content or just a plain old jpeg sitting on a server somewhere.



Another bad thing about supporting linking into 'dynamic content' is alot of those types of things have bandwidth limitations and/or do referal checking. I'm sure you've seen someone post pictures before then when you go look at the post the images are filled with some generic image that has a web hosting companies logo and some notice about linking to the images, or some notice about a user going past their quota... these are often implemented by wrapping a users files in a CGI that checks these things.... disallowing URL's that contain CGI GET data in them helps prevent this.

 

Yup. There's lots of brainiacs around here...