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[Basslet]

I tried to post some photos from Bonaire that I put in my Flickr gallery but I get this message:

Sorry, dynamic pages in the [IMG] tags are not allowed

Why?

[Desert_Diver]

I tried to post some photos from Bonaire that I put in my Flickr gallery but I get this message:

Sorry, dynamic pages in the [IMG] tags are not allowed

Why?

Were you hitting the BROWSE at the bottom of the edit window (upload a picture locally from your computer) or the INSERT IMAGE (remote link a picture) at the top? If you can't get the remote link to work, just upload it to the server. Save a copy locally, then BROWSE for it. That'll always work, if it's not too big.

If Flickr puts stuff in the path to the picture AFTER the file extension (GIF, JPG, JPEG or PNG) then the server will gag. The server is trying to close a security hole where people remotely link in scripts that attack the server. Just strip off everything after the JPG and it ought to work. In other words,
http://static.flickr..._6e76...00]?v=0 won't work, but
http://static.flickr..._6e766bd12c.jpg will work just fine. Note that when you click on either of the links above, they both work in your browser.

If the path to your picture doesn't end in one of the allowed photo types above, it'll never work. Some servers play funny games to eliminate 'hot linking', which is what you're doing when you link a remote picture. There's nothing we can do with a URL like this: http://dynamic.flick..._6e766bd12c?v=0 'cos there's no image mentioned in the URL, just a path to a script that serves the image. That's not a real URL, just one I made up as an example.