How to link picture from a remote site without stealing bandwidth!!!

[benburch]

(Bookmark this one, you'll want it later!)

This works for most pictures. 

Say you have a picture you want to use in a posting; 

http://foobar.com/JulieNewmar.jpg 

Now, if you just link it to your DU posting, you immediately
start stealing bandwidth from foobar.com.

This is simply not a nice thing to do as some websites pay
for every byte they transfer. 

If you change that URL a little; 

http://foobar.com.nyud.net:8090/JulieNewmar.jpg 
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
            
It then uses a free public caching service from
www.coralcdn.org.  It gets fetched ONCE from foobar.com, and
they are not made bankrupt as each of DU's horny guys look at
your Catwoman picture. 

It helps to preview the posting before you hit post as this
gets the caching service to do the initial fetch of the
picture, which can be slow, before your posting appears to the
public. Sometimes you need to wait a few minutes and
re-preview it before everything will appear as it should, and
some web servers will not play ball with the cache, and this
is how you weed those out. 

ENJOY!

[Catherine Vincent]

1. That's good to know. Thanks!

Bookmarked!

[stepnw1f]

2. Excellent Ben... Thanks

Also, will be reviewing your site in full this weekend. I have been busy lately.

[Gato Moteado]

3. ok....i'm gonna give it a try.....

this is a store in the san pedro mall in costa rica:

http://i55.photobucket.com.nyud.net:8090/albums/g138/GatoMoteado/bigmama.jpg

[Gato Moteado]

4. wow....seems to work great! thanks for that! by the way, what's new????

haven't heard from you in a while.

[benburch]

7. Been very busy.

It's always something!

5. thanks

[Nothing Without Hope]

6. K & R. This is an excellent and considerate option. n/t

[Gato Moteado]

8. Kicked & Recommended

nt

[johnaries]

9. Wait, where's the pic of Catwoman?

I also loved her as Rhoda the Robot. Although at the time I was too young to know what that strange feeling "down there" was..... :evilgrin:

Oh, and thanks for the trick!

[benburch]

11. Right Here!

http://members.aol.com.nyud.net:8090/grootlore/julie_n.jpg

[johnaries]

38. Rowr! me-OW! Thanks! nt

[bananas]

10. It works for files up to 50 megabytes - mp3's, pdf's, zip's, etc.

Files over 50 megabytes won't be cached, they will be fetched directly each time, not saving any bandwidth.

[kapkao]

12. Pic linking... 250free, imageshack, photobucket, et all do not work? (nt)

[bananas]

14. Post #3 uses photobucket

You shouldn't need to use it with those places anyway,
since they are designed for free picture distribution.

[Gato Moteado]

42. true, except there's a limit on monthly bandwidth

and it's happened when i've posted a photo on a popular thread that i have exceeded my photobucket bandwidth.

[BelgianMadCow]

13. Bookmarked!! Thanks for the tip.

Free public caching service sounds great to me!

[Reckon]

15. Thanks, nice tip...n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

16. Thank you

[Gregorian]

17. COOL! Thanks for that info.

http://i.pbase.com.nyud.net:8090/g4/90/492190/2/63057443.W0jdjZ9k.jpg

[intheflow]

18. I linked to this the FIRST time you posted it... back in the Meeting Room.

When the Meting Room closed, I posted it in the Lounge and cross-posted it in my Journal. It's still a kick-ass idea, and worth a k&r!

:kick:

[benburch]

19. You and I are likely the only ones left who remember that forum. nt

[Tinksrival]

22. Thanks Ben!

Hey, did you get the word that Lord Pissypants is going to be attempting to speak at Cabot Microelectronics in Aurora Friday 7-7-06, tommorow.
John Laesch (running against Hastert)is going to hold a press conference in front of the place at 2:00pm.
If you want to show up its at

845 Enterprise
Aurora, IL 60504

[benburch]

25. I've been avoiding showing up where he is...

...because I am not sure I could behave myself sufficiently to keep from being arrested.

[Tinksrival]

27. HHHHAAAA HHHAAA !!!!

You have a point there! I guess I'll just scream and yell at the big black SUVs. :evilgrin:

[karlrschneider]

26. I remember the "meeting room"! Didn't use it a lot but it was kewl.

:D

[klook]

20. Very cool - thanks.

We all want to be good netizens. I'm bookmarking this.

[BrightKnight]

21. .

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. This tidbit needs to be added to the html lookup table in the images sec

[Cleita]

24. Thanks for the info, however, what I do is a screen capture

that I download into My Pictures, then I upload to photobucket to get a URL to post. It uses my bandwidth that comes with my photobucket account and it's free. It also gives me the opportunity to resize large pictures.

[benburch]

28. Right.

This is for things like using an image found on google image search.

Like this one;

http://www.tvparty.com.nyud.net:8090/spotpix16/living.gif

[dalaigh lllama]

29. Thanks. I'll try it. n/t

[dalaigh lllama]

30. Yay! I did it

I've got my FSM back in my sig line. (I took it out before when I realized I was stealing bandwidth in my Luddite ignorance.)

Thanks for a simple fix-it solution, Ben.

[flamin lib]

31. ..

[upi402]

32. Thanks yet again n/t

[no_to_war_economy]

33. not working, can u help

I tried it with this pic


here it is with your edits:


chinamarines.com.nyud.net:8090/email/poseur.gif

[benburch]

34. Hmmm....

Works for me...

http://www.chinamarines.com.nyud.net:8090/email/poseur.gif

You had link: instead of http: in your link...

[Lochloosa]

35. Thanks benburch

[malmapus]

36. Wow did not know that, thanks Ben!

:kick:

[Greyskye]

37. Excellent tip!

And easier than saving it yourself, uploading it to some place like photobucket, and linking it to there. Thanks!

[Pawel K]

39. nice one

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[Breeze54]

40. This is very cool!

Thanks Ben!
I tried it today on another messageboard and it worked like a charm! ;)

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

:kick: and Recommended!

[populistdriven]

41. woah, this is sweet

[Buns_of_Fire]

43. Most excellent. Thank you.

:thumbsup: and :kick:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. Thank you Ben!

:yourock: