posted on March 20, 2001 09:22:54 PM new
Tonight all my pictures are showing up as broken links. I check my site and found that they work fine there. Every picture with a url that is from my home site is now broken on my auction page. When I input my auction, they worked fine and have been for the last few years.
Normally there are a few glitches that cause the pictures to dissapear from time to time. They normally doesn't last long. I had heard a buzz about eBay stopping third party listing services and thought this could be another phase to the plan.
I figured it was just a matter of time before eBay required eBay users to buy picture space from them. I figured the excuse would be that any other source of pictures slow down eBay somehow. Manwhile, charging for eBay's picture space somehow speeds up the process... Whatever. Has it started yet?
Thx - Riz
[ edited by Riz23 on Mar 20, 2001 09:39 PM ]
posted on March 20, 2001 09:50:38 PM new
More probably, tripod is blocking request for your pics refered by eBay. It's against their TOS to use them for remote loading.
posted on March 21, 2001 04:04:54 AM new
Where are your pictures?
Tripod will not allow "remote viewing" ... they can tell if the request for pictures comes with a request for a page at their site, and just doesn't hand them over.
posted on March 21, 2001 06:29:30 AM new
Tripod has gone the way of Angelfire when it comes to remote loading. The other freebie home pages sites are not far behind.
posted on March 21, 2001 09:08:35 AM new
Try Bravenet.com or Honesty.com for image hosting. Bravenet may be upgrading their image hosting capabilities and that aspect may not be back on-line yet but check it out. Honesty has their slow moments LIKE RIGHT NOW, but is easiest to work with.
Forget Tripod. If you're smart, you'll even get your web site off of them, especially after this weekend's big blooper. Either that, or make sure you mirror your site elsewhere.
posted on March 21, 2001 09:43:12 AM new
I am having the exact same problem - all of my pictures are coming up as broken links.
My pictures are all stored on my home computer which I have hooked up to a network...there is NOTHING wrong with it on my end - its an Ebay thing I'm afraid...
Will be asking more questions in the Photo section there trying to get answers.
posted on March 21, 2001 03:01:54 PM new
If you go to your eBay item page and do View Source with your browser, you will see the actual HTML source of the page.
Find your images. If eBay has mucked with the URL's or mucked with your HTML, they might be at fault. But I doubt it.
If the <img src=blah> is correct and it does not work, there is a problem between the viewing computer (your browser) and the image host (in the URL). eBay has nothing to do with loading pictures on non-eBay sites, and cannot affect that if the <img src=blah> does not reference a server under their control.
It is very simple for an image hosting service to modify their server software to examine where an image is referenced from, and say "if this image is referenced from an ebay.com page, don't display the image, or display something else, or ..."
If you copy the image URL from your item HTML at eBay into your browser "Address/Location" window and see the image, but it does not work when viewing your item on eBay, then either something else in your HTML is broken (like a table is incorrect), or your image hosting service is looking at the referrer and blocking access.
