Stumped on these images....

[SneakyDave]

Take a look at the images in this directory:
http://www.little-treasures.net/ihost/bacjam/

The following appear in a browser:
highroads.gif
comics.gif

The following appear as broken icons:
arthur.gif
bspatch.gif
therobe.gif

Yet, if you save the "bad" images, and load them into Paint Shop Pro 4.0, they appear. If you save them in PSP 4.0 as a regular GIF, they'll appear in a browser.

What is different about these images that they don't appear in a browser, any ideas? The only difference I see in them is that the highroads.gif image is a GIF 87a interlaced GIF while the others are 89a non-interlaced.

This is really bugging me! Should I just take all the "bad" image, re-save them in PSP, and then re-upload them to this directory?

Thanks everybody for your time.

Sneaky

[Shaytar]

Is it possible that the broken icon ones got uploaded as ascii instead of binary? cuz that'll break them everytime.

That's my only thought.

Shay

[SneakyDave]

Nope, the upload process only accepts "image" type files, which these are. If you save the broken images locally, and load them up in an editor, they look fine.

[SneakyDave]

Something I just noticed....
The images all look fine in Internet Explorer.
Netscape doesn't like them.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Justin]

Interesting... same prob here - look fine in IE, but the one's mentioned are broken in Netscape...

Did you create/edit/save these images or download them from somewhere or whatever? It is possible that Netscape doesn't support the particular type of interlaced GIF or something - idunno... I do know that IE will show any image - even those uploaded in ASCII (it displays as garbage, but that shows that it tries to display it in any way possible - so if, say, the header in the file is corrupt it will attempt to display it anyway).

Well, guess what? It is a header problem. I opened bspatch.gif in a hex editor and changed GIF89a to GIF87a and Netscape shows it... whatever program this was last saved in saved it as the wrong format - yet IE can tell and shows it anyway.

So that's apparently the problem here :)

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Justin
- Cracking GIF's now...

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest Support

[Armand]

Known problem I've discovered a while back is if you sometimes save a file of the net via netscape and keep the file name the same it won't appear in netscape when re-uploaded to your server.[nbsp][nbsp]Not sure what the deal is there. But changing the file name was enough to correct the issue when I ran into it once.[nbsp][nbsp]Of course I probably don't know what I am talking about either.

[SneakyDave]

Thanks guys, this person had used a scanner program to scan and also save the images on their local machine, so I'm going to recommend that they use a graphics editer to save the files as .jpg, instead of a .gif anyway.

Justin, I'll let you get back to your volunteerism on world peace! :)

Thanks again
Sneaky