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by mikek4010
Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:00 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Photo Of The Day for 156 million myspace users?
Replies: 8
Views: 4782

I just don't get it -- why would you want someone to jump thru hoops to see these photos? no, I'm not hosting anything on my server.

Can we hear from the person who uploads the daily photo as to why it's a big deal to simply copy the daily photo to a fixed filename and upload to a fixed URL?
by mikek4010
Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:56 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Photo Of The Day for 156 million myspace users?
Replies: 8
Views: 4782

For the person that uploads the daily photo, it's a simple thing. Re: myspace, I also have normal hosting, but that doesn't change the fact that 158 million people use myspace. Any simple change (for the person that uploads the photo!) that results in promoting these photos, is a good thing (especi...
by mikek4010
Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:59 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Photo Of The Day for 156 million myspace users?
Replies: 8
Views: 4782

nope, that won't work. MySpace has gone to great lengths to prevent users from pasting potentially malious HTML code into their page. As a result, an HTML page cannot be used as the source for an image tag, as the contents cannot be trusted. IMG tags must reference .jpg, .gif, etc. The solution is c...
by mikek4010
Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:28 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Photo Of The Day for 156 million myspace users?
Replies: 8
Views: 4782

Photo Of The Day for 156 million myspace users?

Suggestion to the person that uploads the photo of the day: Is there a way to post a copy of the small photo of the day to a fixed URL with a fixed filename? i.e. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/PhotoOfTheDay.jpg This way, myself and 156 million other myspace.com users could display this imag...