Posting images/pics

[Flying Lawyer]

Please can someone explain why, when I try to post these two images, one produces the picture


and the other remains a link?


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

[PaperTiger]

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

[Unwell_Raptor]

Both work for me.

By the way;

Bloody hell!

[Heliport]

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?

[seacue]

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]

Like this one you mean?




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)


HTH

seacue if that was the problem the link would fail.

[Flying Lawyer]

rustle You're a genius.

The law's a doddle compared with the intricacies of computer language.

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]

'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 ?

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