hey can everyone see this?

Smorris · Post by **Smorris** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:15 am

This site has been up for quite a while. Recently, a friend of mine emailed me and after he tried to see it for the first time, no images loaded but the site navigation and writing all showed up. He tried it with both Firefox and Internet Explorer, and when I tried those and Opera it works fine. No one has ever made this complaint before. Any ideas what the problem could be? Does anyone else even have this problem?

The site is http://debton.keenspace.com

-Scott

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:52 am

Ten to one it's your buddy's firewall messing with him.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:42 am

BADDA BOOM!

http://gear.keenspace.com/ensign/Images.html

Smorris · Post by **Smorris** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:10 am

hmm.. thanks guys, I passed that along and we'll see if he has any luck. Hopefully its a local firewall, otherwise I guess he's just screwed.

-Scott

CommandantDava · Post by **CommandantDava** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:40 pm

Your comics load just fine for me. I like them, btw

I'm betting it's a firewall thing. I've had problems with image loading on computers running EZ Firewall or Norton. Another thing to check is if he has Windows XP Security Center running (it runs automatically when you install service pack 2) and it has a really annoying firewall program. The easiest way to get around it is to just plain turn it off, but if that's not an option I think he can set it to allow graphics or specific sites (I can't remember off hand and I'd have to actually go browse through the program to find where to set it).

Also, depending on what settings it has, your popup blocker might mistake a KeenSpace comic for something it should block (I had to "allow" Keen on all of my computers).

Good luck

Amtekoth · Post by **Amtekoth** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:44 am

I've recently had several people tell me that they can't see my images, and I think they all had the Norton Firewall. They can see the pages and text, but none of my comics.

Does anyone know an easy way around this, other than asking Everyone to turn off their firewalls? Is there a way for Keenspace to make it so that the images make it through firewalls? Other sites don't seem to have this problem. Why are images from Keenspace being blocked?

Lab Bratz, a weekly humor comic strip

http://labbratz.keenspace.com/

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:54 am

Amtekoth wrote:I've recently had several people tell me that they can't see my images, and I think they all had the Norton Firewall. They can see the pages and text, but none of my comics.

Does anyone know an easy way around this, other than asking Everyone to turn off their firewalls? Is there a way for Keenspace to make it so that the images make it through firewalls? Other sites don't seem to have this problem. Why are images from Keenspace being blocked?

Lab Bratz, a weekly humor comic strip

http://labbratz.keenspace.com/

Check the link Phalanx posted. It gives a step-by-step guide to configuring the firewall to work with keenspace.

Amtekoth · Post by **Amtekoth** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:25 am

Oualawouzou wrote: Check the link Phalanx posted. It gives a step-by-step guide to configuring the firewall to work with keenspace.

Thanks, I've already been sending that guide to friends, but what a pain in the butt! Besides, that doesn't help me with the new people who come to my site, can't see my comics, and then move along. I'll never even know that they were there and had the problem.

Rianeva · Post by **Rianeva** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:33 am

You could always use the nosteal image to tell people. Just make an image that explains what's going on (and also tells people not to hotlink), name it nosteal.jpg, and upload it. (I'm not sure if other image types work for this, sorry...)

Amtekoth · Post by **Amtekoth** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:27 am

Rianeva wrote:You could always use the nosteal image to tell people. Just make an image that explains what's going on (and also tells people not to hotlink), name it nosteal.jpg, and upload it. (I'm not sure if other image types work for this, sorry...)

Sorry for being dense, but I don't understand. What's a "nosteal" image? And if they can't see my images in the first place, how would they SEE the "nosteal" image?

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:35 am

nosteal.jpg is the 1x1 white pixel which appears when someone tries to hotlink an image from your site. Really, this image can be anything so what some people have done is put up instructions such as Ghastly: http://ghastlycomic.com/images/nosteal.jpg

Amtekoth · Post by **Amtekoth** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:48 am

Mercury Hat wrote:nosteal.jpg is the 1x1 white pixel which appears when someone tries to hotlink an image from your site. Really, this image can be anything so what some people have done is put up instructions such as Ghastly: http://ghastlycomic.com/images/nosteal.jpg

How do they see the image, if Keenspace prevents them from seeing images in the first place? Will creating and naming a message image "nosteal.jpg" and putting it in the /images folder do it?

Cute/funny image, by the way.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:09 pm

What actually happens when Keenspace prevents a hotlinker from seeing the image is that it redirects them to the nosteal image instead.

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