I was trying to keep it short :-

Approx 42,000 images on sites all over the world. Our suppliers send
us a file showing their product and the link to their image.

I don't really want to tinyurl all these, or host the 42,000 images as
maintenance would be a nightmare.

Ken

On Sep 9, 11:43 am, Ross Ferris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Assuming you "own" the web server that the images are being served from, AND 
> that all of the images are in the same directory (or in the same directory 
> branch area), why not just establish a new "higher" virtual directory in the 
> web server
>
> For example, if you currently serve images from a windows machine with base 
> directory of c:\inetpub and your url now looks something horrible like
>
> http://mysite.com/base/application/xyzOrWhatever/userdata/inventory/b...
>
> You could setup a new virtual directory ofhttp://mysite.com/i(for example) 
> that pointed to 
> c:\inetpub\base\application\xyzOrWhatever\userdata\inventory\bigimages\catalog\jpegs
>  to reduce the URL length by eliminating the higher level "constant clutter"
>
> Ross Ferris
> Stamina Software
> Visage > Better by Design!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> John Fenlon
> Sent: Friday, 9 September 2011 9:29 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: jbase5211 : opening a browser from jbase
>
> Ken,
>
> You could use something like tinyURL to shorten the existing ones.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken 
> Brown
> Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2011 1:08 PM
> To: jBASE
> Subject: jbase5211 : opening a browser from jbase
>
> OS - Solaris 10 - ZFS file systems
> jbase5211
> Users predominantly on HP Thin Clients via ADSL onto user desktops on 
> Microsoft Terminal Services.
> Connection to jbase via Putty.
>
> We currently open browsers (to jpg links) using hyperlinks in putty, but 
> limited to 80 char urls. Is there a jbase function that will read a url from 
> a jbase file and open the link on the remote users session?
>
> Any suggestions would be welcomed.
>
> Thanks
>
> K
>
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