Slight problem

AlanYork · 03-01-2005, 11:14

Can anyone tell me, why, for no apparent reason some pictures have become blank squares with little red crosses on my web pages. Not many, just a tiny handful but it's annoying.
I use a proxy server but changing it to another or removing it entirely makes no difference. Neither has rebooting. I havent changed anything on my pc or downloaded anything, its literally happened overnight for no apparent reason.
Any ideas?

Toto · 03-01-2005, 11:19

Alan, are you referring to images on a webspace server, such as your ntl webspace?

paulyoung666 · 03-01-2005, 11:22

have you got an example to try

AlanYork · 03-01-2005, 11:44

It's webpages. For example, I often look at a webpage called www.pandorasbox.com . Its a site devoted to a silent screen star called Louise Brooks. If I go to the message board forum all the avatars show up ok, apart from one, by a poster called Jolene an aquiantance of mine. Hers shows up as a blank box with a red cross in it.

Theres one or two other examples but thats the sort of thing I'm talking about.

By the way is it a good or a bad thing to use a proxy server?

Rone · 03-01-2005, 11:48

Funny that.
I have had a lot of this on a few different sites.
Sometimes the pix show, sometimes not, i tried clearing the cache and all the usual things, but its hit and miss at some places.

paulyoung666 · 03-01-2005, 11:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlanYork

snip ---- apart from one, by a poster called Jolene an aquiantance of mine. Hers shows up as a blank box with a red cross in it.

By the way is it a good or a bad thing to use a proxy server?

have you tried ctrl f5 when you are viewing a site with problems

edit :- just checked out what you are on about and i get the same , the file is missing from the site

**Paul** · 03-01-2005, 11:52

Jolene's avatar is not available, that's why it shows up as a red X.

AlanYork · 03-01-2005, 12:07

Yes but a friend of mine in Scotland can see it, thats how it came up in passing conversation. Dont get me wrong here, obviously not being able to see an avatar is totally unimportant but is it a symptom of some sort of larger problem? What concerns me is that this has occured overnight for no apparent reason. Why does simply removing the proxy server or changing it not cure it?

Toto · 03-01-2005, 12:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlanYork

Yes but a friend of mine in Scotland can see it, thats how it came up in passing conversation. Dont get me wrong here, obviously not being able to see an avatar is totally unimportant but is it a symptom of some sort of larger problem? What concerns me is that this has occured overnight for no apparent reason. Why does simply removing the proxy server or changing it not cure it?

Your friend can see it because its probably cached on his machine, and has not updated yet, I bet if he hit CTRL+F5, then the image would faulter.

ian@huth · 03-01-2005, 12:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlanYork

Yes but a friend of mine in Scotland can see it, thats how it came up in passing conversation. Dont get me wrong here, obviously not being able to see an avatar is totally unimportant but is it a symptom of some sort of larger problem? What concerns me is that this has occured overnight for no apparent reason. Why does simply removing the proxy server or changing it not cure it?

Your friend may be looking at a cached copy. Do they still see it if they clear their cache and use ctr F5 whilst viewing the page?

Edit. Great minds think alike.

AlanYork · 03-01-2005, 12:30

Hmmm I didnt think to ask him that. has anybody else taken a look at www.pandorsbox.com forum and seen a red cross where Jolenes avatar should be?

If you see it too I have nothing to worry about I guess, but the last time this happened it was quickly followed by no sites opening properly at all and a wasted day talking to an NTL Indian call centre trying to sort it out, hence the proxy server. At least I think it was Indian.

Like I said, it isnt the avatar I'm worried about, it's the possibility of there being a bigger problem.

paulyoung666 · 03-01-2005, 12:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlanYork

Hmmm I didnt think to ask him that. has anybody else taken a look at www.pandorsbox.com forum and seen a red cross where Jolenes avatar should be?

If you see it too I have nothing to worry about I guess, but the last time this happened it was quickly followed by no sites opening properly at all and a wasted day talking to an NTL Indian call centre trying to sort it out, hence the proxy server. At least I think it was Indian.

Like I said, it isnt the avatar I'm worried about, it's the possibility of there being a bigger problem.

just checked and without a proxie i cant even get to the site

edit :- no wonder , didnt type the link properly

03-01-2005, 12:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlanYork

Hmmm I didnt think to ask him that. has anybody else taken a look at www.pandorsbox.com forum and seen a red cross where Jolenes avatar should be?

If you see it too I have nothing to worry about I guess, but the last time this happened it was quickly followed by no sites opening properly at all and a wasted day talking to an NTL Indian call centre trying to sort it out, hence the proxy server. At least I think it was Indian.

Like I said, it isnt the avatar I'm worried about, it's the possibility of there being a bigger problem.

I can see all but the avater. When i try to look at the source for the avater its not there. I think the source is having problems.

And i can see all the other avaters on that forum

Which means its just that one so i do think there is a poblem with where that avater is feeding from.

AlanYork · 03-01-2005, 12:43

So you see a red cross as well then? Hmmm.

**Paul** · 03-01-2005, 12:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlanYork

... has anybody else taken a look at www.pandorsbox.com forum and seen a red cross where Jolenes avatar should be?

Yes, hence my post.