Blocked Images

[toneharb]

I've had this problem all day , about 50% of all images on my site are not being displayed when i view my site .

Have tried removing router/modem and replacing with an older modem.

Disabling Norton 2003 (briefly!)/Windows XP FIrewall - nb there is no option with this application for disabling images just script blocking and auto-protect

IPconfig /flushdns - thanks to member posting earlier with this suggestion.

There is no red cross just blank for internet explorer but do get cross for netscape - if i right click the space where the image should be details such as image url is displayed.

Also loading of page is intermittently slow

WHat is also weird is Dreamweaver is not detecting the images as Dependent files - only seems to be uploading files which are visible .

This is happening only on my PC and laptop both occured from yesterday PM .

No ideas left of my own so anyone with a bright idea ...

Cheers

[Art]

Hi Tony,

I'm curious do you see the images via proxy:

http://tproxy.guardster.com/proxy.ph...bde47cbdd26c00 ?

[toneharb]

Thanks Art,

This Proxy site will be handy as i am dabbling in geotargetting and need to see what oversea surfers see - but have not yet found a reliable one , this looks good.

I do see the images through the proxy server!!! Is this as you would see the site in the USA ? (i'm in UK)

Tony

[Art]

Tony,

I'm trying to find out if the problem is with your PCs or with your hosting
provider, therefore I sent you the link with proxy.
Now if you can use other internet connection (different ISP) and you see
the images, we will know that the problem is with your PC or your ISP.

[dmorison]

What I would do to confirm a proxy issue:

1) open page in browser, confirm that image not showing

2) view source; copy absolute URL of image that is not showing

3) paste absolute URL into the address bar to try and view image on its own, e.g:
http://www.example.com/images/picture.jpg

4) if image doesn't display, append ?foo=1234 to the end of the image URL, e.g:
http://www.example.com/images/picture.jpg?foo=1234

If the image displays after adding the foo variable to the end, that would indicate that something along the line is caching your images, as adding the query string effectively creates a new URL.

[toneharb]

Yep , i concur . except PCs plural lol i have the laptop as well playing up .

Had tried to phone BTYahoo earlier but was put on hold listening to Beethoven's Piano Sonato - the complete works of - but can't see how it could poss be the conection provider as the problem is targetted to my main site only .

If it's the PCs it is is a pain in the * if the only way is to clean the hard drives and reinstall XP etc.

[toneharb]

Hi DMorison,

What a great idea - a lateral thinker !

My sweet shop image was not displaying mydomain/sweet%20shop.jpg

so followed advice

mydomain/sweet%20shop.jpgfoo=1231

Still not displaying , (i've had a glass of wine now so have destroyed a few brain cells so have little chance of solving this tonight lol)

NB: the images that are visible are still visible with the foo parameter so as you suggested (probably) not to do with caching

[Art]

If you can see the images on your site via other ISP this means
(most probably) that there are some problems with the previous ISP -
local cache problems, DNS resolvation problems, etc.

[toneharb]

Is the local cache etc. on my PC or on the BtYahoo broadband server? Will google this query... Thanks Art for the pointer.