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Unable to enjoy XKCD

Postby Broken Golem » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:12 pm UTC

Hi there.

This is a little less technical than most of the posts in this forum, but I'm having a little trouble seeing the comics.

Instead of the usual picture, all I'm getting is a single red pixel. I can still get the alt text from hovering my mouse over the pixel, but that's all.

The rest of the site works just fine, it's just that one bit. Just wondering if someone knows how to fix this problem.

I was able to see the comics for a long time, but all of a sudden, I have absolutely no idea why, they just disappeared.

Thanks in advance,

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Postby LE4dGOLEM » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:25 pm UTC

As A fellow Golem I'd be happy to help.

First up, what OS/Browser are you using, and what Connection speed/provider are you using?
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Postby zenten » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:34 pm UTC

Are you using internet explorer or firefox?
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Postby Broken Golem » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:14 pm UTC

I've tried it on both IE and Firefox, with exactly the same results on both.

I'm using Broadband, but I forget which connection speed I'm at. I've managed to see the comics before, and I haven't changed my connection speed or provider for a lot longet than this problem has been going on.
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Postby ubergeek42 » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:28 pm UTC

I'm betting on a proxy/adblocker. The comic images are at imgs.xkcd.com, I had this problem at my school when trying to view the comics, they blocked all imgs.* subdomains.

Do either of the following links work for you?(I don't expect the first one to work, but try it anyways)
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/goto.png
http://xkcd.com/comics/goto.png
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Postby Broken Golem » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:38 pm UTC

The second one worked, thanks.

Is there any way of seeing any other pictures?

I've tried that same address but with a different comic name inserted, but it just comes up with a 404.
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Postby ubergeek42 » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:46 pm UTC

Your best bet is to go to the comics page, for example http://xkcd.com/c269.html
Then nearish the bottom is the Image hotlinking url, copy that, and remove the imgs. from before xkcd.com and it should work.
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Postby Broken Golem » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:49 pm UTC

Awesome! Thankyou very much. Pretty speedy help too, I only started this topic about an hour and a half ago. Thanks again to all who helped.
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