OT RE: [cobalt-users] Who's been stealing my graphics?

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-----Original Message-----
and behold - I found around the time I wanted

123.123.123.123 - - [16/Sep/2003:01:27:31 +0100] "GET /newebayad/dump3.jpg
HTTP/1.0" 302 231 
"http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2432951060";
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)"

I can now trace that IP address which happens NOT to reside on a dial-up
service but in a government department - My guess the programmer on night
shift.

Wait till his Boss comes in tomorrow !!
-----Original Message-----

Please, someone correct me if I am wrong here ... but, if the Revd has
images on his EBay Item, they of course will be pulled by someone when
they view the item.  EBay doesn download them, and then send them over
to the Person's PC.  If you check the page, you would see a tag kind of
like the following:

<img src="http://revd's.com/images/his_image_name.gif">

When the client, or in this case the "123.123.123.123" hits EBay's site,
it is NOT EBay whom redirects him, but it is his Web Browser who see's
the "src=" tag, and follows that.

There is nothing wrong with that, nor would it be "stealing", and there
would be nothing you can really do, except to remove the images from
your page, and pay EBay to host them for ya.

I could have followed the thread wrong, but that is very, very normal on
lots of websites, all over the world.

Just my two nickels for the day.

~Brian