I still don't get either image, so it does make me wonder what the
difference is between our systems. Is the configuration of HTTP
servers a dark art or something? ;-)
When I put the URL into the message box or a field, I could see the
JFIF identifier near the beginning, but nothing else suggested a
solution to me.
As I described in another message, I suspect that the JPEG image
might have been saved in some subtle variant/flavor of JPEG that's
not supported by my version of MetaCard. But at the same time I'm not
at all sure the situation is clear enough to be classified as a bug
report.
David
At 10:30 AM -0800 1/16/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Downloading images using URL
>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:18:45 -0700 (MST)
>MIME-Version: 1.0
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>In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, David Cramer wrote:
>
>> I have just gotten around to checking out how the loading of images
>> off the Internet works. My results are really inconsistent, and I
>> can't find a pattern to the problem.
>>
>> The following lines work great, almost instantaneously displaying the
>> referenced graphics in a MetaCard image:
>>
>> put url "http://www.xworlds.com/images/frontpage/cwc1.jpg" into image 1
>> put url
>> "http://adcreatives.imaginemedia.com/MDN/1999/07july/IMG0712.gif"
>> into image 1
>> put url "http://www.fourthworld.com/images/4w/4WlogoBig2.gif" into image 1
>>
>> These don't work:
>>
> > put url "http://www.macsurfer.com/btnsurfoff.gif" into image 1
> > put url "http://www.fourthworld.com/images/nav/menuV5.jpg" into image 1
>>
>> I'm working with the Macintosh version of MetaCard 2.3B3 on a
>> PowerBook G3/266 under Mac OS9.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>The second one works fine here. The first one returns a 404, which
>looks to me to be a misconfigured HTTP server, or at least one with
>some incompatibility in how it handles full paths. When you get stuck
>like this, just try putting the URL into the MB. If it works, most of
>it will be garbage, but at least you'll catch the obvious errors (like
>404 - not found) and with some image formats you can determine the
>image format by looking at the first few bytes of the data.
> Regards,
> Scott
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David
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PBSC Computer Training Centres (an IBM company) Winnipeg MB R3H 0X4
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