I am somewhat confused how to include in my posts here images that are on photo.net. I know enought HTML, that is not the problem. The problem is which link from photo.net do I use?

For example, here is a link to one of my images from photo.net:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=247176&size=lg

However, that link seems to pull in not just the image, but the whole photo.net page, including copyrights, asking for comments, etc. etc. How can I access just the photo itself so that I could include it in posts here?

-- Akor (eye@kaax.org), June 04, 2001

Answers

I'd say to just make it a hyperlink with the "a" tag, i.e. like http ://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=247176&size=lg.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), June 04, 2001.

Yeah, but...

I know how to make hyperlinks. But if you click on the link you've made you'll see that it points to the whole photo.net page and not just to the image. What I want it to insert just the image into a post on this board, which all the other people are doing.

-- Akor (eye@kaax.org), June 04, 2001.

I follow ya. I actually thought there was a way to do it, too. The link we have now is simply a script with everything after the question mark being the parameters to the script. What we need to be able to do is point to the actual image file which may not be (any longer) possible.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), June 04, 2001.

OK, this is a test. This might work. What I did was right click on the iamge, select "display image", and it got me to a page with just the image and no other stuff like the copyrights. Here I go:

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), June 04, 2001.

OK, it worked. When you right click on the image (while viewing it on the photo.net page and select Display Image, you get a different URL which includes "image-display" which seems independent from all the photo.net gobble-de-gook.

Very cool image, by the way.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), June 04, 2001.

OK, so that's how it works

OK, this is how this seems to work. The normal photo-in-a-folder display is denoted by an html link similar to this:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=247176&size=lg

To extract just the image without any of the "extras" the 'photo' part of the URL (which is the name of a server script) should be replaced by 'image-display' so that the link becomes

http://www.photo.net/photodb/image-display?photo_id=247176&size=lg

And this does seem to work. Thank you, Tony.

-- Akor (eye@kaax.org), June 04, 2001.