Posting images/pics [Archive]

Flying Lawyer

9th Apr 2003, 23:58

Please can someone explain why, when I try to post these two images, one produces the picture
http://www.grosset.co.uk/Travel%20Writing/Australia/images/must-closeground1.JPG

and the other remains a link?
http://www.grosset.co.uk/Travel%20Writing/Australia/images/must-&cattle3.JPG

Both come from the same web page and the address is correct because the link works.

:confused:

PaperTiger

10th Apr 2003, 00:40

Could be the ampersand (&) in the middle of the URL confusing the BB software.

Unwell_Raptor

11th Apr 2003, 05:14

Both work for me.

By the way;

Bloody hell!

Heliport

11th Apr 2003, 05:32

U_R
What do you mean they both work for you?
One pic appears in the post. To see the second pic you have to use the link? :confused:

seacue

11th Apr 2003, 06:53

In many servers/ISPs one has to be very careful with case when you type the URL. UNIX/Linux systems that I know about distinguish between upper and lower case. A very large proportion of web servers run UNIX/Linux.

I keep forgetting this and have trouble from time to time.

seacue

rustle

11th Apr 2003, 16:09

Like this one you mean? :D

http://www.grosset.co.uk/Travel%20Writing/Australia/images/must-%26cattle3.JPG

BB cannot parse the ampersand (&), so you need to change it to the CHR code, prefixed by %.

So that link should be:

.....grosset.co.uk/Travel%20Writing/Australia/images/must-%26cattle3.JPG

(I had to change the first bit to dots so I could display the text and not the picture) :rolleyes:

HTH ;)

seacue if that was the problem the link would fail.

Flying Lawyer

11th Apr 2003, 19:00

rustle You're a genius. http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/clap.gif

The law's a doddle compared with the intricacies of computer language. http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/mica/pc-crash.gif

Thanks.
Tudor Owen

PaperTiger
Thanks for your input. You were obviously on the right track - but I'd never have worked out the solution.

PaperTiger

11th Apr 2003, 23:14

'Funny' symbols in a URL are always a problem. I don't know why people insist on using them. Like 36 other characters aren't enough ? :8

Oooh, just noticed lots of new smilies over there <----