Posted by rf on 08/22/07 10:35

<ginoplusio@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> >
>> <sigh> Yes. I am very sure.
>>
>> If your email recipient has configured their email client to _not_
>> retrieve
>> images (as I have done) then there is absolutely nothing you can do about
>> it, short of going round to their house and changing their preferences
>> for
>> them.
>>
>
> Hi Richard, that's true, ok. I know it. But in Windows mail as in
> Outlook, when you receive a mail with images you can click a link that
> say something like "download images".
> I'm not crazy, I know I can't change your client security settings or
> move your coffee :-)
>
> I want to track opening when the user decide to "download images".
>
> The problem is that the image used to track as a suspect name (".php"
> and parameters) so that particular image is not download.
>
> So the problem is in the way I write the tracking image tag.

Ah, OK then. Sorry, I did not understand that your recipient has actually
pressed the "download" button.

I see no reason at all why this should not work. Neither the client nor the
host care about the actual file name. To the client it _is_ an image,
because you have specified an <img> element. The file name is, or should be,
irrelevant.

However, you have a closing / in there, which is XHTML. Does it work if you
use HTML (no /). Maybe it is not a "fake image" issue but an XHTML one.
Hint: IE simply does not understand XHTML and error corrects the / away.
Perhaps Outlook does not error correct, er, correctly.

--
Richard.

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