On 07/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
On my own wiki I link external pictures in by simply using a http request. Evidently at one time this was a standard part of the work. Not sure why we don't just do that for the majority of images.
It's OK to do that sometimes, but this is usually called 'leeching' and many websites will check their access logs and set up their webserver to refuse requests when people do that. It actually costs the other websites money to provide that service for your readers.
And if you're really unlucky they'll catch you doing it, and redirect your access to a completely unsuitable picture...
Will