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Re: working with blogspot
Posted By: Howard, on host 65.6.33.101
Date: Sunday, May 15, 2005, at 11:39:44
In Reply To: Re: working with blogspot posted by Lucky Wizard on Saturday, May 14, 2005, at 16:42:39:

> > I still trying to use tinyurl.com to shorten the URL of this picture so I can post it on my blog:
> >
> > http://www.southeasterncushmanclub.com/
> > CushmanPhotoPages/pictures/Fall%20SECC%20Meet%202004/photos/100_1135_0001.html
> >
> > I broke it down like this:
> > http://www.southeasterncushmanclub.com/
> >
> > CushmanPhotoPages/pictures/Fall%20SECC%20Meet%202004/photos/100_1135_0001.html
> >
> > Then I ran the first part through Tinyurl.com, tacked on the last part and ran it through again. I got:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/9sd6g (And it works for me.)
> >
> > However:
> >
> > When I tried to post that, I got:
> >
> > The file at the specified URL does not have an acceptable extension (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif).
> >
> > Can anybody see what I am doing wrong?
> > Howard
>
> The URL at the top isn't the URL of a picture; it's the URL of an HTML file that contains a picture. (Pictures by themselves don't have .html extensions, and they don't have links in them.) To get the URL of the picture, you can right-click on the picture and choose "Properties".
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Lucky "Note that, if a picture's URL is particularly long, Internet Explorer doesn't show the whole thing, but you can still copy the whole thing if you highlight it by triple-clicking." Wizard

Thanks LW & CB. I'm going to get on that problem again this afternoon if my brain starts working.
Howard

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