On 12 May 2009, at 14:27, Andy Greener wrote:
> On 12 May 2009, at 14:22, Bob Wood wrote:
>> I'm using GoogleMail in a Google Chrome browser and get a working
>> clickable link which takes me to the picture.
>
>
> Yes, and they're using Yahoo webmail and IE7.... very logical (not)..!
To follow-up my own posting:
GoogleMail/YahooMail/whatever will hand off the tinyurl URL when you
click on it to Chrome/IE7/whatever to issue the GET. tinyurl.com
returns the following:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Location:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vCd63PmTGV8/SgfyLAQlG6I/AAAAAAAAAVA/G_YmZmJOz10/s1600/DSCF0046%5B4%5D.jpg
Content-type: text/html
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:40:00 GMT
Server: TinyURL/1.6
Browsers are meant to handle a 301 by performing a further GET on the
content of the Location: header. This is clearly breaking in Roger and
Barry's case, but is ok for you (and me). So, is there a Google IE7
toolbar involved, and is it therefore broken?
--
Andy Greener
n.b. Whisper
Pangbourne, UK
http://www.nb-whisper.com
"Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not
incredibly stupid"
