One reason a server may be set this way is in the situation where a web site pays for bandwidth, the server can check to see if the graphics are being “served” to a browser that is looking at that site and not a third party site. If Michelle was paying for bandwidth, as we read the site at least she’s paying for her own readers. If I run “stolenphotos.com”, and put her picture on my site ( as in ), she isn’t paying for my readers looking at it. But if I use in my html then my millions of (hypothetical) readers would be using her bandwidth, and she might end up paying for it. To prevent that, a server can be set up to check to see if the graphics are being served to viewers of her web site rather than mine. But your firewall must allow “private header information” as Zone Alarm Pro calls it.
And please run a firewall for your own sake. In my experience as an IT guy it takes less than 20 minutes for an unprotected computer to be compromised when it is attached to the net.

network.http.sendRefererHeader

is set to 2.

To do this, in firefox, type about:config in the URL. This displays a number of variables. Type “ref” in the filter to shorten the list.

Right click on
network.http.sendRefererHeader
Select Modify, change the value to 2
Exit and restart Firefox.

Can you find out why Allah stopped blogging as soon as the Sox won the series? I miss him so!

I had the same issue with Blogs of War.

Also, you don’t have to spend quite a bit of time keeping Virus software, spyware control, and Microsoft patches up to date.

Dollar for Dollar Macs are also much cheaper than PCs when you factor in all of these hidden costs.

If you still don’t have the money to switch out your computer, at the very least, go to http://www.mozilla.org and download FireFox and start using it in place of Internet Explorer. You will love how much faster it is, and you will spend a lot less time worrying about all of the above evil threats to your PC.

I think the problem is in the “img src” tag, that it is not being closed properly – specifically the

border=”0″ />

I think changing it to
border=”0″ >

will enable the image viewing.

I can view the images within their posts (I’m running Mozilla on RH Linux, with no virus/ad blocking and a hardware firewall router) but I cannot view or download them as independent requests without faking or deleting the referer. For example,

GET http://michellemalkin.com/graphics/mm.gif

produces “403 Forbidden”, where

GET -H ‘Referer: http://michellemalkin.com‘ http://michellemalkin.com/graphics/mm.gif

produces the file. I can easily imagine that anti-virus or proxy settings could mix up the referer references so that the images would not be visible even within the posts, but I am puzzled by marc’s apparent ability to see the files directly, apparently without faking the referer. I assume that he’s using one of the browsers of the no referer list at http://www.logilune.com/eric/noreferer.html, or something else that kills this HTTP field.

If this needs to be fixed, I would look at the Apache config.

immigrants.184.2.650.jpg should be immigrants_184_2_650.jpg or just leave them out altogether.

This stuff goes through a lot of servers enroute from one place to another and all it needs is one that doesn’t like your dots. And NEVER have spaces in your file names.

(My new one will have one, just as soon as I can get it to work…)