Posted by Si Ballenger on 05/27/07 05:21

On 26 May 2007 21:02:58 -0700, chancegardinner@yahoo.com wrote:

>I use the URL's for images found within a webpage in order to display
>the images alone on a tab in my browser.
>
>Something I don't understand started happening with one of these image
>files.
>
>Til recently this URL: http://www.oceancitycam.com/images/board1.jpg
>went to a webcam of a boardwalk in Maryland. The jpeg changed about
>every 5 seconds.
>
>Now when you go to that URL you get a a message:
>"Visit Beach-net.com Web Cams."
>
>However if you go to the page where the webcam image is embedded it
>appears as usual:
>http://www.oceancitycam.com/
>
>Checking the current URL for the pic,it appears to be the same as it
>has been:
>http://www.oceancitycam.com/images/board1.jpg
>
>Somehow, they have made the pic accessible only within the wepage.
>Does anyone know how they do that?

It is done in the web server setup to prevent people from
hijacking the web cam feed for their own web pages (and missing
all the advertising).

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