How to link in pictures without stealing bandwidth!!!

I found this post by benburch back in the day when there was The Meeting Room forum. I used this all the time, it works fine as far as I can tell. I thought it was a good post and saved it. I thought I'd re-post it as a handy tip.

Here's the original thread text:

How to link in pictures without stealing bandwidth!!!

Edited on Tue May-17-05 07:00 AM by benburch

This works for most pictures.

Say you have a picture you want to use in a posting;

http:// foobar.com/JulieNewmar.jpg

Now, if you just link it to your DU posting, you immediately
start stealing bandwidth from foobar.com. This is simply not
a nice thing to do as some websites pay for every byte they
transfer.

If you change that URL a little;

http:// foobar.com.nyud.net:8090/JulieNewmar.jpg

It then uses a free public caching service. It gets fetched
ONCE from foobar.com, and they are not made bankrupt as each
of DU's 30,000 horny guys look at your Catwoman picture.

It helps to preview the posting before you hit post as this
gets the caching service to do the initial fetch of the
picture, which can be slow, before your posting appears to
the public. Sometimes you need to wait a few minutes and
re-preview it before everything will appear as it should, and
some web servers will not play ball with the cache, and this
is how you weed those out.

ENJOY!

We add "nyud.net:8090" after the dot-com?

That's it?

Gotta be a catch here someplace.

Doing this drains money from my PayPal account, right?

But I've been using this since May.

I just used it in a GD thread. Thanks for the info!:thumbsup:

:kick:

marked so I can peruse this later, after the coffee reaches my brain