Image Host Grabber

[nobadguy]

Deciding factor seems to be allowing cookies.
Blocking all won't let Imagebam work no matter what pattern is used, allowing them let the pattern work.

[beechcott]

There's a new host file. Can anyone confirm whether all of the hosts that members here have had trouble with since the last host file was released have been successfully fixed in this new one (meaning that updating to it won't undo the benefits all of the manual fixes that were applied since the last host file was isntalled)?

[solarbear]

I saw that also, nice to see that functioning. I just chose "cancel to only add new hosts",, instead of "OK" to replace existing host file. Everything is fine with my IHG as of now anyway...still getting those pesky 10kb P&H icons....i think I should consider myself lucky that PH comes in 96% of the time.....When i first started using IHG.., PH and Imgbox were those hosts that needed additional effort.

[beechcott]

Originally Posted by solarbear

I saw that also, nice to see that functioning. I just chose "cancel to only add new hosts",, instead of "OK" to replace existing host file.

Would it be more advisable at this point in time to replace the host file with the new one, or to just Add the new hosts?

[solarbear]

I can't advise choosing "OK", i haven't done it that way except from the inception of using IHG. I always go with "cancel" to add only new hosts and that has worked for me so far.

[fats]

Originally Posted by nobadguy

Deciding factor seems to be allowing cookies.
Blocking all won't let Imagebam work no matter what pattern is used, allowing them let the pattern work.

Yes, that's important to know about. I like to keep cookies disabled and cleared out most of the time in Firefox. I enable 'em site by site as needed, and clear 'em all later with the help of the Cookie Controller extension. I have found that what works with IHG & imagebam is to first enable cookies, then open a temporary tab, load any imagebam image "manually", so to speak, click on the nuisance link to get to the image, then close the tab. I keep the URL of an imagebam image bookmarked for that purpose. Once imagebam has set its cookie in your browser, it will no longer refuse IHG's requests for images until you clear that cookie. There may be an easier way of doing this, but that one works for me and it's not much hassle.

[fats]

Originally Posted by beechcott

Would it be more advisable at this point in time to replace the host file with the new one, or to just Add the new hosts?

The determinant should be whether you have done any editing of your hostf file to fix bugs caused by changes at the image hosts, or to add a new host definition. If you haven't done that, then click "OK" to replace the old file with the new one. If you have edited the file, then you'll lose your locally-made changes unless you click "Cancel" to add only new hosts.

If you click "Cancel", then you don't get the benefit of any bug-fix updates to existing hosts that are in the new file.

So it's partly a question of whether you want to DIY ("Cancel") or to just use the standard file that's distributed to everyone ("OK").

[Charlus]

Originally Posted by halvar

That message appears when the page that should contain the image was successfully loaded but the link to the image cannot be found on it.
Either the imagebam server does not give the expected page to the grabber or something in between manipulates the HTML.
Hard to tell. There are ways to analyze this, but these cannot be explained in a few sentences (logging, wireshark,...)

Here is my hostcode for imagebam:
URL pattern:

^https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?imagebam\.com\/image\/[^&]+$

Search Pattern:

function(pageData, pageUrl) {
	var iUrl  = pageData.match(/img class=\"image\".+?src=\"(.+?)\"/);
	return iUrl ? {imgUrl: iUrl[1], status: "OK"} : {imgUrl: null, status: "ABORT"}
}

This post saved me a lot of time! Thank you, thank you so much!

[Charlus]

Shit. I restart it and the problem showed up again.

One question, after you paste the URL pattern and the search pattern, what option do you have to click?

-update file
-add host
modify host servers
-another one?

Pardon my ignorance...

[solarbear]

I think you just need to click "save"...I would post the screen capture, but would need to upload it to a host site first...be right back....