Post by kensiPost by BTR1701Post by kensiThe only conclusion can be that either the server is generating an
incorrect response to the initial GET request from the browser, or
else you fucked up the link you posted (or are purposely trolling
us by linking to a blank .png).
And yet everyone else who responded in this thread was able to see it,
kook.
And yet you still cannot produce any evidence to substantiate this
klame, and meanwhile it is self-evident that the server cannot be
responding to that GET request, irrespective of the requesting
user-agent, consistently with some particular non-blank .png image file.
Put another way, the only excuses for clicking that link not resulting
in a non-blank image being presented to me would be "the .png file
exists but it *is* blank" (in which case you are trolling), "404 file
not found" (not what I'm observing), or "I set my default browser to
Lynx, therefore no images for me" (I did not).
If the server is serving something other than a .png file (or 404 error)
it's responding incorrectly. If it's discriminating on the basis of the
requester's user-agent it's responding incorrectly (there are now ways
of negotiating content-types and asking browsers if they support things
like webp that don't depend on guessing based on the user-agent string,
and when requesting a .png from a file storage site that's not relevant
anyway as a file host should serve the exact file that was uploaded, not
a conversion of it).
Basically, there's no way you can pin this on me. Either you're wrong or
the server you hosted this thing at is doing something wrong. You, or
your deputy, screwed up. I'd say "now, man up and admit it" but that
would reinforce harmful gender stereotypes. We'll have to think up some
modernization of that idiom ... maybe something about joining the
vertebrate phylum and growing yourself at least a small notochord?
Though some day we'll probably meet intelligent octopodes from Delta
Pavonis III or summat and have to change it again ...
--
"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain
the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy." ~David Brooks
"I get fooled all the time by the constant hosiery parade
in here." ~Checkmate
Unlike a lot of people here, Kensi, I don't usually find too much
objectionable in your posts (:-)) but I have to call you out this
time. I clicked on the link as given, and it came straight up.
OTOH, I *have* hit a strange bug in Firefox (a slightly old version
in Linux) on one site (the BBC) in particular. I use NoScript to
suppress unwanted JavaScript, but usually I leave bbc.co.uk and
bbc.com as permitted. There is also bbci.co.uk which sometimes has
to be enabled too.
However, if all three are enabled I usually get no images at all!
Often if I just set all three to "Default", I immediately start to
see all the images! Usually disabling one of the three is enough to
restore images. Videos, though are another matter. Quite often (but
not always!) no combination of 'enables/disables' will give me anything
but a blank image. I have no problem with other videos such as YouTube.
Just possibly related to your experience?
-- Pete --