Posted by Andy Dingley on 01/03/08 11:18

On 3 Jan, 10:05, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> Sig wrote:
> > Toby A Inkster said:
>
> >> Any image that can be seen using <img> can be seen by accessing the
> >> image's URL directly.
>
> > That's not always correct.
>
> It is always correct.

There are still dumb "anti bandwidth blagging" server-side scripts
that will refuse to serve it without seeing an acceptable referer
header (yes, they break if you view the original page without
sending the header).

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