I get a Error - Cause Unknown message.
Which page are you using to upload, and what are you using as the source?
I can't open that image, it gives me a "forbidden" error message. Try saving it to your computer first, then uploading it here.
Maybe instead of saying Cause Unknown the error message should say "A 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to access the URL you provided." It would give a lot more information to the user. :)
Perhaps the image fetcher should send a spoofed referer header to prevent this problem in the future. When you put Referer: http://www.disneyabcpress.com/ in the HTTP request it fixes it.
Agreed, I'll make sure there'll be a better error message.
We're definitely not going to implement referer spoofing or other tricks for hundreds of different sites though. In those cases, simply download & upload. :)
I suspect Disney does that specifically to keep folks from hot-linking to images. Always best practice to save the image and upload.
david wrote:
We're definitely not going to implement referer spoofing or other tricks for hundreds of different sites though. In those cases, simply download & upload. :)
Why not? You just send a referrer that equals the host the request is being made to. It's simple to do.