Info Autoshite Help/Information/Posting hints etc.

[Eddie Honda]

You just paste the link. (on its own line)

[Tam]

You just paste the link. (on its own line)

https://youtu.be/FBOva29re9A

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOva29re9A

 

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FBOva29re9A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

3 attempts 3 Fails!!

[daveb47]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOva29re9A

[Noel Tidybeard]

[Noel Tidybeard]

funk me all this time trying to use the "link" function

 

just found out using a quote box seems to work i you cant paste staright into text box

[Negative Creep]

Tried to post my Forza pictures in the gameshite thread but it's having none of it, image extension isn't allowed on this community. Any idea what in this URL is causing the issue?

 

https://www.forzamotorsport.net/Handlers/GetPhoto.ashx?game=fh3&id=19788374&full=true

[tinribs]

Anti-hotlink feature by the looks of it. Hotlinking is also referred to as bandwidth theft - Autoshite gets the content and the click/hit while the image host pays for the image's bandwidth you are hotlinking to as it has to be sent from them to us.

 

Same idea if I ran a cable from mine to yours and took your electricity. I get the heat and light, you get the bill.

 

Some sites are designed to allow hotlinking, photobucket for example. This preserves bandwidth and disk space on Autoshite and uses photobucket's instead.

 

Enough drivel from me

[tinribs]

Not hotlinking. I'm just copying the image and pasting it.

 

Ben

Copying what to where? The URL? Because if it's the URL, that is hotlinking.

 

If it's the image itself, then you are pasting/uploading it to Autoshite, which isn't hotlinking and would work.

[tinribs]

Ah. That's a bit different. For forums and such like you need to either hotlink (if the host site allows it) or the image is manually uploaded to the Autoshite server.

[tinribs]

I think I already explained why it worked a short time ago and not now. I copied and pasted the image from my own webserver into an office document. It worked fine, viewing the source showed no hotlinking - the image is embedded into the file and saved. When I did it in a test post here, viewing the source showed it hotlinking to the image instead rather than uploading it onto Autoshite's server.

 

Word and web forums aren't the same thing and don't work the same way.

As for experience...of this particular forum. Ran forums on vBulletin a while ago. There's not a huge difference in them, just like all petrol engines more or less run the same way give or take some minor variations.

 

How much experience do you have of how the internet works and in particular, how hotlinking and referrals work? Because I am pretty sure that's what the problem is. The source server of your image is checking the referral to see where it's being linked from. With MS Word, no referral. With this site, the actual address.

 

Sorry for trying to help anyway.

[tinribs]

Anti-hotlink feature by the looks of it.

It may be the host server has changed something at their end that no longer works as before. The image you linked to doesn't follow the usual format of "www.webaddress.com/somefolder/filename.jpg" which is a direct link to an image.

 

Can you try the same copy/paste thing on another forum to see if it also happens there?

 

At least that way we can rule out whether I'm rambling shit or not

 

Cheers

[tinribs]

Ok, I just tried what you said and got that same message about not allowing the extension.

 

I'm assuming it means ".ashx" isn't an allowed extension. Forums usually allow specific extensions for security reasons (to stop people posting dangerous scripts or viruses for example). I can only assume it worked before because it'd have been one of the allowed extensions (jpg, gif, png and so on) and Microsoft have recently changed it to what it is.

 

Have you asked them if they've changed anything?

 

An ASHX file is a webpage that is part of an ASP.NET web server application. It contains references to other pages hosted on the web server that are sent to the user's web browser. ASHX files are processed by the server's ASP.NET HTTP Handler when a client web browser requests the page.

 

Given what it is, I doubt it would be allowed. Dave calls the shots so wait and see what he says.

 

Cheers

[KruJoe]

Another one for Dave...

I'm having bother seeing my notifications, I just see eternal buffering like so:

 

 

I've run CCleaner to clear whatever it does, and restarted everything, but still no better.

(Lenovo Win 10 laptop, Chrome)

 

Any ideas?

[KruJoe]

Well, this evening my notifications drop-down thingy is working again. Ignore the above. If someone did something to something, thank you.

As you were!

[Six-cylinder]

Recently there have had a number of photos on this forum I can't see, when I push on this is what it says. Any ideas, is it my end a setting needs changing?

 

"This site can’t provide a secure connection

 

uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com uses an unsupported protocol.

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

Hide details

The client and server don't support a common SSL protocol version or cipher suite. This is likely to be caused when the server needs RC4, which is no longer considered secure."

[Steve79]

Apologies if this has already been covered but when viewing the forum on my phone in mobile view (which i do 99% of the time) unless i am logged out of my account, the thread that i'm viewing starts at the very first page. So when looking at news24 the first page it loads is from the very start (2008 etc). If i switch from mobile view to desktop then everything is fine but a real hassle to view.

 

Is there something i'm missing as its really bugging me! If not, would it be difficult to add a page selector in mobile view to the screen so you can jump to the selected page easily?

 

Cheers

[dollywobbler]

Anyone else finding that this place keeps going dog slow? Having to wait 30 seconds or more for threads to open.

[garbaldy]

Anyone else finding that this place keeps going dog slow? Having to wait 30 seconds or more for threads to open.

Yes and more.

sometimes I just turn it off all together once the little blue bar struggles to reach its destination,

[daveb47]

There is problem with server hosts that they are trying to sort.

Hopefully done soon

[dollywobbler]

Thanks Dave before seven.

[garbaldy]

That's good to know as I honestly thought my phone was getting past it's best.

Thanks driver.

[Noel Tidybeard]

how does one change ones identity on this forum should one need to hide for erm tax purposes*

 

*because others have and i r jellus

[daveb47]

how does one change ones identity on this forum should one need to hide for erm tax purposes*

 

*because others have and i r jellus

Just pm me with details.

[dollywobbler]

Has something gone wrong with the mobile skin? The forum is completely unformatted on my phone.

[daveb47]

Should be ok,just restarted server just in case.

[dollywobbler]

Thanks. Didn't fix it, but switching to Normal, then back to Mobile did. Must be my phone...

[Jim Bell]

I cant get the forum on chrome mobile at all. Though fire fox is working.

[anonymous user]

Weirdly the mobile setting won't work on my phone, apart from the section for moderns. Switching to the full site I can see all sections

[Jim Bell]

Bub is reporting via Facebook that he cant get on via mobile any more either.

[Tam]

I'm using Opera Mini on my Android phone. Still working fine. Never was able to get to grips with Taptalk and the like.