Firewall Blocking Pics

Fish Soup · Post by **Fish Soup** » 12 Mar 2006, 16:12

Resently I was updating my virus definations for Nortons Internet Security when a file was corupted during download. A message was displayed saying Live Update had changed my FW settings. I rebooted and repeated, all went well the second time around.

However my FW is now blocking all pics in the cat-elog. Also the "resent update" thumbnails. Pics embedded in a thread display fine.

I cleared my logs and attempted to dispaly a pic. When I checked the logs afterward they reported a block on "UPNP". So I changed the rules to allow UNPN even though I have no idea what this means. Didn't matter, pics still blocked.

Anyone have an idea what the problem is?

Don

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 13 Mar 2006, 19:23

Yes, I've been struggling with this for some time now. It's to do with the referrer variable that the image manipulation script (aka catscan) uses to work out if an image is being hotlinked from the site.

I'm continuing to look into it.

Jools

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 13 Mar 2006, 19:39

Try that? If it's still not working can you copy and paste the outpiut from this page - http://www.planetcatfish.com/scripts/browser_test.php - into this topic please.

Cheers,

Jools

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 13 Mar 2006, 19:42

Fish Soup wrote:I cleared my logs and attempted to dispaly a pic. When I checked the logs afterward they reported a block on "UPNP". So I changed the rules to allow UNPN even though I have no idea what this means.

Nothing to do with the images problem, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886257&SD=tech . Can you also tell me what you see instead of the images when you try and view them full size?

Are you with AOL?

Jools

Fish Soup · Post by **Fish Soup** » 14 Mar 2006, 02:26

Thanks for the reply. All the cat-elog pics are displaying as a thin box with a red "x" in the upper left corner. Followed by the species name and the phrase "Click to go back to the thumnails"

I'm not using AOL. Just IE with RCN as my ISP.

When I disable Nortons all the pics pop right up on refresh. So I know it's in this changed FW setting. Just unsure what was changed.

Don

Fish Soup · Post by **Fish Soup** » 14 Mar 2006, 02:28

HTTP_USER_AGENT |Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)|

HTTP_REFERER ||

Cookie values
0:
1:
2:

Not sure why you wanted this, but there it is!

Don

Luske · Post by **Luske** » 15 Mar 2006, 15:20

hmmm this is wierd

im having the same problem and i dont know if there is a fix or settings to alter or something??
have u got it sorted Fishsoup ??

regard Luske

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 15 Mar 2006, 17:48

Try that, I think it's the firewall blocking your referer info. (which is perfectly legit) and my image rendering script then thinks you are me and tries to run the thing locally.

Anyway, does it work now.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/images/ful ... thus/1.jpg

If it doesn't tell me what you get on the screen if you click on the above link.

Jools

Fish Soup · Post by **Fish Soup** » 15 Mar 2006, 21:49

Jools. Back to working perfectly! Thank you.

Don

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 15 Mar 2006, 21:58

Cool.

Luske, how about you?

Jools

Luske · Post by **Luske** » 16 Mar 2006, 10:12

yup works perfect

Luske

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 18 Mar 2006, 08:21

Ok, fixed!

Jools

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