WARNING on copying smilies

[Colapop]

You could maybe point out a couple of those chicks to me perhaps....? Just so I'd know which ones to avoid you understand....

[marty]

Haven't used gmail.

But I wonder where the instructions to call up the image are hidden then.
It would need a line of code with the url near the smilie - something that says (tag) a href url http://www.leso-image.jpg (/tag)

can you view source code like you can on a browser?

how many of you tried to open this link.......

[Smorg]

obviously you had a crack at it

[Big Dave]

You guys!
I'm just interested in how it's done. self executable code somewhere maybe, but I reckon it's a hidden meta tag.

and hey - i'm a roll me in honey and throw me to the lesbians kinda guy, but those chics are too young for me.

[SpankMe]

I'm just interested in how it's done. self executable code somewhere maybe, but I reckon it's a hidden meta tag.

http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html

[Big Dave]

http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html

thanks - now i know

[marty]

obviously you had a crack at it

only in the course of the investigation did i view said images your honour.

[scracha]

Oh fark, did almost exactly the same thing with a smiley in my race report. Spankme needs to change this, it aint funny having porn on your blog as a result. Put up a huge motorcycle or something instead.

[onearmedbandit]

You don't know SpankMe. He won't.

[westie]

The burning question is - which smileys?

[sAsLEX]

Oh fark, did almost exactly the same thing with a smiley in my race report. Spankme needs to change this, it aint funny having porn on your blog as a result. Put up a huge motorcycle or something instead.

Well thats why I put this thread up, wanna sticky it OAB?

[scracha]

You don't know SpankMe. He won't.

I know that. The worst thing is when you preview your own page it appears fine and then obviously spank's host's hotlinking software kicks in a few days later and the little smiley men turn into lesbians. Any will do

[imdying]

This is extremely common practice for web server admins who're sick of their bandwitdh being stolen. Always host your own pics. A friend of mnie used a random system that generally only gave duck pictures back, but with the occasional goatse pic thrown in now and then for laughs.

The bottom line is though, stealing bandwith is bad mmmkay.

[scracha]

FFS, nobody intends to steal bandwidth when they post a smiley. I'd assumed it was my "own" webserver's smiley and that it had cut n' pasted " :-)" or ":smiley" or something instead of
img src="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/images/smilies/yes.gif" title="Yes" class="inlineimg" border="0"

Pretty wank to put up porn for hotlinking. Goats, small children, helen clark, satan or whatever is fine but for some reason peeps can get upset about pron.

[imdying]

That people are ignorant about the fact that they're stealing bandwidth is why the server admins have to resort to things like this. Otherwise that smiley will get forwarded about maybe a million times, slowing up the hosting server, and eating away at their (costly) bandwidth. And not goats, goatse (not even close to work safe).