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JeanneHedge
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933 posts		 Aug-22-02, 10:29 PM (EDT)
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"Links in the UDF?"
 
   Tonight I tried to include a link directly to a JPG image in a message I sent to one of the conferences. I wanted to post a link rather than include the image in my message because of the image size. I did it the same way I do when posting a link to a html page as given in this forum's HTML reference - open square bracket, link:, URL without the HTTP, |, link text, close square bracket.

Is it different when linking using .jpg instead of .html? I ask because the square brackets turned into greater-than and less-than signs when I was linking to a .jpg, but stayed as square brackets when I linked to a .html, and I didn't find this referenced elsewhere.


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  RE: Links in the UDF? Star Ranger4 Aug-22-02 1
     RE: Links in the UDF? JeanneHedge Aug-22-02 2
  RE: Links in the UDF? megazone Aug-23-02 3
  RE: Links in the UDF? jonathanlennox Aug-23-02 4

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Star Ranger4
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1. "RE: Links in the UDF?"
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   umm? I don't get it. Are you saying you used the DC code for a link, or something else?

Of COURSE you wernt
expecting it!
No One expects the
FANNISH INQUISITION!
RCW# 86


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JeanneHedge
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2. "RE: Links in the UDF?"
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   >umm? I don't get it. Are you saying you used the DC code for a link,
>or something else?

I did the same as the links in my sig, but the square brackets you're supposed to use with links turned into < and > signs.


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megazone
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 Aug-23-02, 06:46 AM (EDT)
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3. "RE: Links in the UDF?"
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   >Is it different when linking using .jpg instead of .html? I ask
>because the square brackets turned into greater-than and less-than
>signs when I was linking to a .jpg, but stayed as square brackets when
>I linked to a .html, and I didn't find this referenced elsewhere.

DCF is a little squirrely with linking images, the auto-embed code tends to step on the link and you get messiness. It is one of the things I never got around to patching.

The oft-mentioned new forum project is not dead, just on hold. AXNY has been sucking up my entire life for a few months and I haven't had time to focus on much of anything else, especially a complex SW project.


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jonathanlennox
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4. "RE: Links in the UDF?"
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   >Tonight I tried to include a link directly to a JPG image in a message
>I sent to one of the conferences. I wanted to post a link rather than
>include the image in my message because of the image size.

The workaround for embedding links to images is to stick a fake CGI form-submission doohicky on the end of your link, following a question mark. Most web servers will ignore them for non-form web pages, but DCF's perl code won't recognize the link as a link to an image.

Thus, for instance, http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/SOS/GFX/pm-corwin-apotheosis.jpg?x is a link to the newly-colored picture of Corwin.

--
Jonathan Lennox
lennox@cs.columbia.edu


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