Am I the last one to find this out? {Geocities linking}

[Sluggo]

Am I the last one to find out that substituting fp in place of www in a geocities link that it makes hotlinking work?

http://www.geocities.com/mistrx/handjobsign.jpg

http://fp.geocities.com/mistrx/handjobsign.jpg

learn something new everyday

 

[bastula]

Nope, I didn't know about it. I also don't use geocities, even though I have an account with them.

 

[yakko]

I never knew that either.

 

[enginjon]

didn't know that either. that'll cut out the middleman from now on (a geocities page with links to my pic files)

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

count me amongst the newly informed.


late.

TDP

 

[yiwonder]

I never knew that. How did you find out?

 

[dc]

not too many people knew about it.

 

[VoodooExtreme]

<< not too many people knew about it. >>



I did

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

That's why those damn links never worked!

 

[dabuddha]

i dunno, might just be me
but when i clicked on the 2nd link, i got this

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /mistrx/handjobsign.jpg on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

[prontospyder]

Got the same error too with 2nd link.