Imagehost Problems, Imagebam, Imagevenue, PimpAndHost, PixHost, ImgBox etc

[nobadguy]

Me too, wanted to download this: http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=737 but neither IHG nor JD2 can get them down properly. I hate this kind of chicken shit, especially in December...

[Boatguy]

Originally Posted by ruffroundedges

Reading the last weeks posts lets me know I'm not the only one having trouble posting. When the "Browse" button disappeared I thought it was possibly ADP. I disabled it with no success. I even closed Firefox and opened Explorer to see if that was the glitch, same results. I guess I'll have to wait patiently for the problem to be fixed. At leastthe "Thanks" button works.

Originally Posted by LadyLuck

Anyone else having new issues with Image Host Grabber and PimpAndHost? Until P&H changed to their new format all was well. I would right click on the message number in the upper right corner of the post and open it in a new tab, go to that tab and then right click to activate IHG to get all pics on the page. Now IHG reports that the file is not found. The pictures are there if I click on them first to open the P&H page and then save them each manually. Very cumbersome. Still works normally for any other host.

Originally Posted by nobadguy

Me too, wanted to download this: http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=737 but neither IHG nor JD2 can get them down properly. I hate this kind of chicken shit, especially in December...

Patience is a virtue young shavers. Let's try to apply some to the current concerns about P&H. For those that want to post, there's a multitude of other file/image hosts available for posting. The majority of members here at VEF don't give P&H a second look when uploading their goods.

For those that want to download using IHG, either wait a few days for them to update the host file, or go to their support forum at the bottom of the page, set up an account, and request a fix for P&H. However, while P&H is still tinkering with their goods, I expect your best course of action is to just give it some time.

[Midnight Air]

Originally Posted by Mr. Gussett

Frankly, P&H is (and always was) shite, compared with Imagevenue - why anybody uses anything else baffles me....

I use imagevenue and imagebam. I use imagebam primarily becuase it has a button below each picture which allows you to go to the imagebam gallery the uploader made. I dont see this on imagevenue. Imagevenue and imagebam both very reliable.

[aphex1973]

Originally Posted by Midnight Air

I use imagevenue and imagebam. I use imagebam primarily becuase it has a button below each picture which allows you to go to the imagebam gallery the uploader made. I dont see this on imagevenue. Imagevenue and imagebam both very reliable.

Imagevenue also offers a gallery option. If you click on the following image and scroll down, you will see that there is a hyperlink which says, "View Gallery". Less elegant perhaps than imagebam, but same basic effect.

[Baranovich]

I have tried to use P&H several times over the past couple days. It is up and running, you can insert pictures into a post.

However, it won't convert them over to thumbnails. It is inserting them as the full-size photos. Also, if I try to insert like 5 pictures into for example The Babe of the Day thread, it will insert the first 4 pictures but then for some reason automatically deletes the 5th picture and won't insert it.

Any ideas? I certainly hope that I don't have to actually adjust the images myself to create thumbnails, that would be ridiculous and would slow down posting immensely.

Hopefully these are just some bugs that P&H is working out, but at this point I am ready to try some of the other picture hosts, P&H has prevented me from posting anything for going on three days now.

[pcaca]

Originally Posted by Boatguy

Patience is a virtue young shavers. Let's try to apply some to the current concerns about P&H. For those that want to post, there's a multitude of other file/image hosts available for posting. The majority of members here at VEF don't give P&H a second look when uploading their goods.

For those that want to download using IHG, either wait a few days for them to update the host file, or go to their support forum at the bottom of the page, set up an account, and request a fix for P&H. However, while P&H is still tinkering with their goods, I expect your best course of action is to just give it some time.

As you say, it's a matter of a few more days until the owners of IHG update it.

However, if you are in a hurry, and these "sucks" cannot wait, you can use the following fix (it's a bit arcane if you are not familiar with these tools, but I did it and it works very smoothly again on pimpandhost files):

1. Locate the "IHG host file". It's an XML file that IHG uses to store the file hosts definitions, so it can download files properly from each of them. You can see the path for this file by choosing the "Host File Editor" in the IHG menu (right click in the browser you are using). The path to the host file it at the bottom of the window that opens. In my case, is something like this:

C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Moonchild Productions\Pale Moon\Profiles\9rjzyax9.default\extensions\{E4091D6 6-127C-11DB-903A-DE80D2EFDFE8}\hostf.xml

2. Open this hostf.xml file with an editor (Notepad will suffice) - make a backup copy of the file before opening it, just in case...

3. Find the "pimpandhost" section. It should be something like this:

<host id="pimpandhost">
<urlpattern>^http:\/\/(?:image\.|www\.)?pimpandhost\.com\...
<searchpattern><![CDATA[function(pageData, pageUrl) {
...
return retVal;
}]]></searchpattern>
</host>


4. Now, you have to change the "function" by another one that will correctly retrieve the pimpandhost files from the new storage this filehost is using. This means EVERYTHING from:

function(pageData...

to:

...return retVal;}

DO NOT CHANGE anything else, i.e. any character before "function", or any character after the "}" (from the ]] on)

This is the new code that you have to insert, exactly where you are removing the previous one:

function(pageData, pageUrl) {
var retVal = {};
if (pageUrl.match(/-original\.html$/)) var iUrl = pageData.match(/src="(http:\/\/.+?)"/);
else {
if (pageUrl.match(/\.html$/)) {
retVal.imgUrl = pageUrl.replace(/.+\/(\d+)_x\.html$/, "http://image.pimpandhost.com/image/$1-medium.html");
retVal.imgUrl = retVal.imgUrl.replace(/(^http.+-)\w+\.html$/, "$1original.html");
}
else retVal.imgUrl = pageUrl.replace(/^http.+\/show\/id\/(\d+)$/, "http://pimpandhost.com/image/$1-original.html");
retVal.status = "REQUEUE";
return retVal;
}
return iUrl ? {imgUrl: iUrl[1], status: "OK"} : {imgUrl: null, status: "ABORT"}
}

5. Save the hostf.xml file in the same location and reopen your browser. Now IHG should work well with pimpandhost files.

Please note I have not invented this fix, I requested it in the IHG forum (Hot Honeys), they answered very quickly.

A final caveat: IHG checks periodically if there's a new hostf in the application's server, to stay updated with fixes and new host definitions. IF they change the reference file but the pimpandhost part is not updated with the above fix, you will lose this change unless you have "Ask" or "Add only new hosts" selected in the HostFile tab within the Options menu.

As @Boatguy says, it's a matter of time before the folks in charge of IHG fix the reference hostf with this new pimpandhost definition (maybe a few days, now that I "officially" informed them of the change), but if you are in a hurry, this workaround will do the job.

Regards

[Midnight Air]

Originally Posted by aphex1973

Imagevenue also offers a gallery option. If you click on the following image and scroll down, you will see that there is a hyperlink which says, "View Gallery". Less elegant perhaps than imagebam, but same basic effect.

Really? Thanks, I didnt know that. Then i shall resume using imagevenue!

[footstep]

pcaca coded :
return iUrl ? {imgUrl: iUrl[1], status: "OK"} : {imgUrl: null, status: "ABORT"}

Ternary.

Elegant....

[JCat]

Originally Posted by Baranovich

I have tried to use P&H several times over the past couple days. It is up and running, you can insert pictures into a post.
...P&H has prevented me from posting anything for going on three days now.

Do you mean you can now upload them directly through the reply box here, or do you mean you upload them on the P&H site and paste the link into a post? I don't see the Browse button as before. I saw a few posts above that ruffroundedges mentioned that as well. Is this affecting some of us or all of us?

[Boatguy]

Originally Posted by JCat

Do you mean you can now upload them directly through the reply box here, or do you mean you upload them on the P&H site and paste the link into a post? I don't see the Browse button as before. I saw a few posts above that ruffaroundtheedges mentioned that as well. Is this affecting some of us or all of us?

I may be mistaken JCat, but I think what he means is use a different host.

P&H is in a bit of a cluster at the moment, and methinks the best thing to do for all parties concerned, is to look elsewhere for your image hosting needs.