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Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:29 pm**

Somebody, please help me out on this one.

A friend of mine (who frequents the same forums as I do and hasn't got any problems there) tried to get onto my comic site through a link I posted but she said whilst she can see the comic site and the shoutbox she can't see any images whatsoever.

She also tried to go on through the ComicGenesis main page but has the same problem there.

Other people I know and that look at the site don't have that problem.

Could it be browser related or something like that? She uses firefox.

Oh ... and here's the link to the site ... Starcommand

Thanks a heap!

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:01 pm**

Straight from the wiki:

CGWiki wrote:Your software firewall or proxy has caused Comic Genesis's Anti-hotlinking to Block Your Image
Symptoms: Your images load up as blank white images or nothing at all. None of your images work... Not your banner, not your comics either.

Diagnosis: Basically, Comic Genesis has an anti-hotlinking system which does not allow images in the /images and /comics folders to be linked from outside the site. Some firewall programs that attempt to protect your privacy 'rip' images from the server so as not to leave a referrer. Comic Genesis detects this as hot-linking, as so blocks it, resulting in the white nosteal.gif being displayed. To test if this is really the case, pick any image you want, name it nosteal.jpg (or gif) and pop it into the /images folder. If the images all start showing up as that image, you know you have this problem.

Suggested Cure: Fix your firewall so it does things the right way Since there are several firewalls out there, the instructions have been moved to a different page: I'm running a firewall and I can't read CG comics!

Note, you can only link images such as banners and avatar pictures through SiteAdmin, using the Banners Option. See the Banner and Avatar Guide for more details.

For more info on how your friend can fix it, read this page.

Hope that helps!

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:40 am**

Thanks Black Sparrow!

I've emailed her with that page. That'll hopefully fix it but since she lives in the US somewhere on the East coast I won't know until tomorrow

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