Message Forum: Re: there is always a snag

Re: there is always a snag

Posted By: wintermute, on host 24.209.11.207
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at 22:13:42
In Reply To: there is always a snag posted by Howard on Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at 21:07:16:

> I hit a snag.
>
> Daniel78 tipped me off to a useful site called TinyURL.com where you can trade a looooooong URL for a, you guessed it, tiny one. I was having trouble posting pics on my blog because the picture URL's were too long. So I went to Tiny and they quickly fixed me up with a short URL to the picture. I tested it and it worked great. Then I went to my blog and found out that in order to post it there it had to have a JPG suffix on the URL. So how can I get Tiny to put a JPG (Jpeg or other such) on there? I tried "contact us" and all I got was the dreaded "This page cannot be displayed."
> Help!
> Howard

One thing you can do is just paste the URL of the directory into TinyURL, and then add "/.jpg" to the end of what it gives you.

For example:

http://www.jwoodandcompany.com/2004/daytona/Cushman-rt.jpg

Give this section to TinyURL:

http://www.jwoodandcompany.com/2004/daytona

It becomes:

http://tinyurl.com/7f7rg

Add the filename back in:

http://tinyurl.com/7f7rg/Cushman-rt.jpg

And, voila...

wintermute

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Message:	> > I hit a snag. > > > > Daniel78 tipped me off to a useful site called TinyURL.com where you can trade a looooooong URL for a, you guessed it, tiny one. I was having trouble posting pics on my blog because the picture URL's were too long. So I went to Tiny and they quickly fixed me up with a short URL to the picture. I tested it and it worked great. Then I went to my blog and found out that in order to post it there it had to have a JPG suffix on the URL. So how can I get Tiny to put a JPG (Jpeg or other such) on there? I tried "contact us" and all I got was the dreaded "This page cannot be displayed." > > Help! > > Howard > > One thing you can do is just paste the URL of the directory into TinyURL, and then add "/.jpg" to the end of what it gives you. > > For example: > > http://www.jwoodandcompany.com/2004/daytona/Cushman-rt.jpg > > Give this section to TinyURL: > > http://www.jwoodandcompany.com/2004/daytona > > It becomes: > > http://tinyurl.com/7f7rg > > Add the filename back in: > > http://tinyurl.com/7f7rg/Cushman-rt.jpg > > And, voila... > > wintermute
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