This is just a test, if this was a real post, actual content would follow...

[thistlechaser]

If anyone sees anything besides "test" below, please please please leave me a comment.



Someone claimed that he was seeing a gross image, which (since I don't post gross stuff) would likely be my anti-leech script -- which shouldn't be triggered by anything on LJ.

So if you see anything besides 'Test' above, please leave me a comment and let me know if you're looking at this page through some non-normal browser, a proxy, a client, or anything else that might effect these things.

Thanks!

Edited to add: I think the issue has to do with the - in my username. While "*livejournal*" should be permitted to get an image from catlove, 'thistle_chaser.livejournal.com' is having a problem. (LJ changes all dashes into underscores.) 'thistle-chaser.livejournal.com' has no problem. So hm, how to fix this...

Another ETA: *&*&^&#!&$ Stupid thing. I just turned off all hotlink protection. As far as I can tell, any "username.livejournal.com" format randomly triggers the anti-leech script. Mutter, mutter, mutter.

Comments

[simmysim.livejournal.com]

i see test. i'm using a normal internet explorer ... ^^;

[astral.livejournal.com]

ah! are u chaging your settings? first i saw the Test image, then i saw the "don't steal images...." image for awhile, and now it's back to Test

makes me feel like i'm going nuts, lol.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm going nuts, too! Bah!

what protection system are you using?

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

And is it really able to handle regex's?

Re: what protection system are you using?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

what protection system are you using?

Whatever comes with Cpanel X (it has no name of its own, as far as I can find).

And is it really able to handle regex's?

At one time it seemed to, but as of this morning I would say no. I suspect there's something going on on the back end of things, because as of yesterday the behavior really seems to have changed...

(If someone had been seeing the really nasty anti-leech image before yesterday, I'd have hoped they would say something...)

Leeching isn't that bad of a problem, but it's the idea behind it that bothers me. Even if only a couple of people link to a couple of my images, it still makes me go 'Rrrr!'. :)

[rushlight75.livejournal.com]

I see "test" on this post, but I should probably let you know I've followed one of your LJ links before and seen a "gross image", too (the link was supposed to go to a picture of a Sirius doll on your computer top, or something similar). The link it bounced to was pain4.html. Or something like that. I was going to write and ask you about it but then got distracted by other things and forgot all about it. :/

What is an anti-leech script?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eek! Sorry you had to see that!

Since I have my own domain/hosting, I pay for bandwidth. When someone takes one of my images and links to it on a message board or something (as opposed to copying it to their own webspace and linking it from there) it costs me money. So what people tend to do is set up "hotlink protection" -- an anti-leeching script that watches where a request for an image comes from. If it's not from a domain on the approved list, it sends that gross image instead.

For whatever reason that has gone nuts, and is now randomly handing out that really gross image, so I just turned the whole protection off. I hate to have it off, but better the bad guys win than that image shows when it shouldn't.

according to the FAQs I found hotlink protection doesn't handle wildcards

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

just enter all of the domains, e.g.

foo.livejournal.com, etc.

I guess that creates a problem for "friends" pages viewed from mynick.livejournal.com/friends/

:(

Re: according to the FAQs I found hotlink protection doesn't handle wildcards

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sounds like it does. Oh well, thanks for checking up on that for me!

no problem...

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

:(

[kaylarudbek.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the gross image before or after you turned off the protection, and I'm using Safari.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Cool. Thanks for the info!