[Glenn]

We don't want porn and decaying bodies on the forum. And most people don't want to accidentally post such things, and with the way caches work, they wouldn't even realize that they are doing so.

Oh. Now I see. Caches post images. I'm such an idiot. Thanks again. How did I ever get along in life without your wisdom and instruction?

By the way, who in the hell is "We"?

[the_Watchman]

He didn't say "caches post images". That is YOUR incorrect conclusion. His statement explains why the poster would not even be aware that a gross image had been posted on Free Republic.

BTW: "We" is most of us!!

[Neets]

Smart alec eh??????????

[hellinahandcart]

Put a nice big shot of something or other in your next cup, won't you? Otherwise I'm going to have to call you Grumpy Glenn.

[I Am Not A Mod]

Thank you for clarifying the attitude with which you are posting. I had not caught on to it the first time.

Let me explain in more detail.

If a user goes to Rotten.com and browses from their web pages, each time an IMG tag is accessed and the image is loaded, the rotten.com server can tell that the tag was on a page served from its own server, and will present the image.

When a rotten.com image is posted to a thread here, when the rotten.com server gets the request for the IMG, it can tell from the http headers that the requesting page was not a rotten.com page. It can also tell that the requesting page was a Free Republic thread.

Many sites use this ability to tell what page generated the request for an image in order to substitute another image, so that people don't post their images and use their bandwidth. Angelfire is an example of this.

Rotten.com has this habit of changing images posted to FR to be something particularly nasty. You don't have to believe me, plenty of others have seen it before.

A user's cache comes in to play because it can make it so that a user does not notice that the image has been swapped on him. If the user had viewed the correct image at rotten.com, and then goes to post it here, when the user gets the preview page it can (depending on browser settings) just show him the cached image for that URL, rather than going to the server to get the image served again. Everyone else would get whatever the server delivers- which has been "Tub Girl", it has been some gay porn, it has been some decaying bodies.

I hope you have a great New Year, Glenn.

[grimalkin]

Oh. Now I see. Caches post images. I'm such an idiot. Thanks again. How did I ever get along in life without your wisdom and instruction?

That's not what he said. I knew some kids in grade school that had comprehension problems.

By the way, who in the hell is "We"?

Maybe the people that own and run this site.

[RightOnline]

My, but WE have a chip on our shoulder this morning, don't WE???

[Quilla]

By the way, who in the hell is "We"?

I was wondering the same thing.

What we're driving these days

[restornu]

By the way, who in the hell is "We"?

Certainly with a fun loving personaly as you seem to lack cant' be you! no one asked you to take it to your personal ego Glenn there are more folks on this forum than you Glenn!

Some here who are thankful they are not embarssed by these sites which play dirty tricks!