Accessing and saving images

Every thumbnail image on my website links to a "full size" image, which in nearly all cases is 800 x 600 pixels (landscape) or 576 x 768 pixels (portrait). Left-clicking on the thumbnail image (or the active caption below the image, if there is one) should bring up the full size image, which you can save to your hard disc if you wish.

To stop illicit "hot-linking" of the full size images from usenet posts, discussion boards and other websites, the link on each thumbnail is not a direct link to the image - rather, it runs a cgi script that will fetch the image from a protected directory. All new galleries will feature this protection, and the old galleries already online will be converted over a period of several months. However, this does cause problems for several viewers. If you're having problems accessing or saving the full size images, read on.
 

If you cannot access the full size images...

• You might have right-clicked on the thumbnail image and selected "save link as" or "save target as". Because the link is a cgi script and not a file, this won't work. You have to left-click on the thumbnail image to get the full size image on screen.
• You may be working from a local or cached copy of the index page. If you saved the index page to your disc then clicking on the image links won't work because the cgi script blocks all requests that don't originate from the "true" index page at www.jbutler.org.uk. You need to go online and access the website itself. The same problem may occur if your browser or your ISP has cached the page and is supplying its own copy rather than accessing the site directly. If you're getting the "access forbidden" message, try going back to the index page and hitting "reload" or "refresh". You may need to clear your disc and memory cache.
• A virus protection, firewall, anonymity masking or ad-blocking utility may be causing problems. Norton Internet Security implements "referrer blocking" as a default setting, but you can disable this for individual websites. Zone Alarm Pro also implements this feature and will need to be disabled for www.jbutler.org.uk. If other, similar, utilities are causing problems try tweaking your program settings or temporarily disabling them. I'd appreciate any information on problems casued by applications and utilities of this type.

If you can see the full size images but can't save them...

• Saving is not disabled. You just need to supply the right filename.
• If you're using Netscape, then select "File / Save As" from the menu, or right-click on the image and select "save image as". A dialog box will appear and will suggest "image.cgi" as the filename. Change this to the real filename, which will be of the form "xxxxx.jpg" and will be displayed in the address bar at the top of the page, then click on "save".
• If you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer, then select "File / Save As" from the menu, or right-click on the image and select "save image as". A dialog box will appear and will suggest "image" as the filename. Change this to the real filename, which will be of the form "xxxxx.jpg" and will be displayed in the address bar at the top of the page, then click on "save".
• If you only get a ".bmp" option in MSIE when you hit Save As, this might be the solution: Go into TOOLS/INTERNET OPTIONS/ADVANCED Scroll to bottom and see SECURITY. Make sure to CHECK MARK "Do Not save encrypted pages to disk" Hit APPLY. I've not tried this myself but I found it on the web via a Google search, it's worth a try.