Hi,

Nothing has changed. It's the fact that pictures > 800 pixels can't be
hotlinked:

http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/faq.html#embed_image

Cheers,
-Jeff

On Oct 27, 8:18 am, Loloy D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been using Google Picasa Web Albums API on my website for a
> very long time now but it appears that something has significantly
> changed the way I used to "leech" from my Picasa web albums.
>
> I am able to successfully grab and manually parse the GData feed and
> cache it in my website's database.  The new problem I'm having is when
> I am trying to directly display my pictures from an IMG/SRC tag/
> attribute.
>
> I have this sandbox page where I am attempting to incorporate Lightbox
> and GData in my Drupal website:http://www.loloyd.com/sandbox/d6/node/22
>
> As you can test and see, my Lightbox fails to work there.  But you can
> try to right-click on any image, and open that in a new tab - this new
> tab will indeed display a 404 not found on the URL saying something
> like
> "Google Error
> Not Found
> The requested URL /xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.jpg was not found on this
> server"
>
> But if you try to click on that 404'd tab's address bar and click on
> GO (I guess this blankens the Referer field), you would be able to get
> the correct image.  This leads to me suspect that I should either be
> authenticating myself properly as I didn't have to in the past or that
> I should find a way to fix that Referer field, which would be
> impossible.
>
> The weirdness doesn't end there, however, as I have a properly working
> non-Lightbox webpage on the same set of images that totally 
> works:http://www.loloyd.com/photosets/2008_introducing_cutie
>
> Before you go dismissing that there's a problem with the Lightbox
> script, please note that I have been able to use this same "feed
> mechanism" from another image hosting provider that I control and that
> it works OK.
>
> Thanks for any insight.
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