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On 18/02/07, us at redpumas.com <us at redpumas.com> wrote:
> Trying to help out with a blog (Word Press) but for some reason images
> linked to from picasaweb.google.com don't show even though the image url
> works when enterd into the address bar.
>
> See www.firkinlooney.me.uk
>
> Images don't show but if you right click display image the url works fine.
>
> Is this a common thing with picasaweb google?

I tested that URL using the excellent Tamper Data extension for
Firefox, and the images hosted at google are returning "403
Forbidden".

I suspect they're using an Apache mod_rewrite rewritecond to check the
http_referer header and, if it's not referred by Google, return a 403.
It's a common practice to stop image linkers "stealing" bandwidth.

Tim