Photo on a blog not displayed because of a Referer

suntsu

I've a blog where i link some pictures from my smugmug gallery. External links are enabled in this gallery.

This is how it looks on my blog. Some pictures works, some don't.


I've analyzed the http traffic, and there you can see that only one picture gets loaded


The reason seems to be the Referer.

doesn't work:
get http://suntsu.smugmug.com/photos/i-3fJ8hpd/0/L/i-3fJ8hpd-L.png
Accept: image/png, image/svg+xml, image/*;q=0.8, */*;q=0.5
Referer: http://www.suntsu.ch/alessia/index.php?/archives/170-Schaukeln....html
Accept-Language: de-CH
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: suntsu.smugmug.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cookie: SMSESS=553fc97279912a4ce32966decec7ed46

response:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Server: Apache
X-Smug-404: E
X-Smug-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:24:02 UTC
X-Smug-Phone: 0.085983037948608
Content-Length: 0
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:24:02 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

if i remove the Referer, then it works.
get http://suntsu.smugmug.com/photos/i-3fJ8hpd/0/L/i-3fJ8hpd-L.png
Accept: image/png, image/svg+xml, image/*;q=0.8, */*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: de-CH
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: suntsu.smugmug.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cookie: SMSESS=553fc97279912a4ce32966decec7ed46


But i can't disable the referer on my blog.
Any hints what i'm doing wrong?

cheers
manuel

edit:
I embed the picture like this:
<img src="http://suntsu.smugmug.com/photos/i-3fJ8hpd/0/L/i-3fJ8hpd-L.png&quot; title="blub" alt="blub" />

Andy

Hello, the reason the photo isn't displaying in your blog is that you have external links turned off Go to gallery settings and turn external links on, and the photo will show in your blog.

suntsu

It seems the links also don't work from this forum.
If you open http://suntsu.smugmug.com/photos/i-3fJ8hpd/0/L/i-3fJ8hpd-L.png, it seems not to find the picture.
But if you copy this link, and past it directly into your browser, it works.

What's the reason for this?

suntsu

Andy wrote: »

Hello, the reason the photo isn't displaying in your blog is that you have external links turned off Go to gallery settings and turn external links on, and the photo will show in your blog.

Hi,
As i wrote in the first post, i have external links enabled for this gallery, and i see them:

suntsu

I have an idea what could cause this behavior.

Most of my gallery are locked down(no access without password, external links off).
For my blog, i choose some pictures, and put them into an public gallery via "collect photos"


Could this be a problem? Link a picture from a public gallery which was put there via "collect photos" from a locked down gallery?

denisegoldberg

suntsu wrote: »

Could this be a problem? Link a picture from a public gallery which was put there via "collect photos" from a locked down gallery?

As far as I know the settings from the original gallery are used.

--- Denise

suntsu

denisegoldberg wrote: »

As far as I know the settings from the original gallery are used.

--- Denise

Hi,

Yes, this might be. But in this case it should apply those settings always, and not only when the referer on the http header is set.
For me, the current behavior is still very strange.

Andy

Suntsu, the photo needs to have external links ON. You have them off in the gallery where this photo lives.
http://suntsu.smugmug.com/Private/Pictures/PS/18999530_qGJqH3#1479597603_3fJ8hpd

change ext links to ON and all will be well, I promise.

suntsu

Hi andy.
Thanks for your answers.
This means to me that i will upload the photos special for my blog to a public gallery and link them from there rather than using the "collect photo" feature.
For me, this is ok.

But this sill doesn't explain this strange behavior.
Some photos are shown in my blog while some are not. Those which are not shown in the blog can be viewed if i just enter the link in the browser.
Again, i'm ok with the solution for me, but the underlying problem is not solved...

cheers
manuel

suntsu

I guess i got it.
You were right andy. External Links were not enabled in those gallery's.
So the correct solution is to lock down those galleries but to enable external links.
Those external links are useless except when used via the "collect photos" feature.

Andy

suntsu wrote: »

But this sill doesn't explain this strange behavior.
Some photos are shown in my blog while some are not. Those which are not shown in the blog can be viewed if i just enter the link in the browser.
Again, i'm ok with the solution for me, but the underlying problem is not solved...

cheers
manuel

They will not show in your blog unless ext links are set to yes. That is the reason, and there's no underlying problem. Does this help?

jfriend

suntsu wrote: »

Hi andy.
Thanks for your answers.
This means to me that i will upload the photos special for my blog to a public gallery and link them from there rather than using the "collect photo" feature.
For me, this is ok.

But this sill doesn't explain this strange behavior.
Some photos are shown in my blog while some are not. Those which are not shown in the blog can be viewed if i just enter the link in the browser.
Again, i'm ok with the solution for me, but the underlying problem is not solved...

cheers
manuel

They will sometimes show on your computer only even though external links are blocked because the browser loads them from your disk cache (because you have viewed those images elsewhere, thus caching them) where there is no external link protection. Clear your disk cache and don't view those images in their regular galleries and you should get a consistent behavior in the blog.