Why can't I see some pictures?
This is another of those computer questions that has multiple answers, so I'm only including a few common reasons for pictures failing to load.
I am assuming that you have already done the standard Windows thing of deleting all your temporary files.
** Incorrect case in the file name **
File names over the Internet are case sensitive - picture.JPG is not the same as picture.jpg. However, some browsers convert upper case characters to lower case before processing them. If a webmaster has made a mistake in entering a file name, and has tested it with such a browser, he may not spot the error. There is not much you can do about this unless you want to spend time experimenting. If you really want the picture, and you can see an upper case letter in the URL, you could try re-entering it in lower case. Two common mistakes are making the first letter a capital, and entering the JPG suffix in upper case (there are a couple of graphics packages that default to this).** Including a space in the file name **
Internet Explorer doesn't mind this as it replaces the space character with "%20". Some versions of Netscape use the space as a name delimiter and submit a truncated name, which is not recognised. The easy way round this is to use a different browser.** The picture has been deleted **
There is not much you can do about this one. The webmaster has deleted the picture for some reason, or the hosting company has decided it is illegal or against it's site policy.** Error 404 generation **
Some adult sites are hosted on "free" servers. Of course they are not really free, the hosting company has to make some money to pay the bills. One obvious way of doing this is to add banners to the top and bottom of each page, and any revenue gained from surfers following these links goes into the pot to cover costs. Another way of getting this revenue is to create a "404 not found" page and include revenue generating links on this. The hosting company claims this revenue towards cost. There are a few of the less reputable companies that generate false 404 messages to gain extra revenue (thus defrauding the site owner). If you suspect that this has happened, just hit the back button and retry the download.** Hotlinked pictures **
One of the major cost in running an adult web site is bandwidth. This is the amount of data transferred to and from a web site during its normal operation. If you download 10 pictures of 100k in size, that is 1 Megabyte of data (actually it's a bit more because of all the control stuff that has to be included as well). If a site has 200,000 visitors a day, you can see that this mounts up pretty fast. One trick that some webmasters try is called hotlinking. This involves adding a link to a picture that is on someone else's site so that the picture host has to pay for the cost of the transfer. This is actually theft, and most sites have protection methods to prevent this. These devices can result in the picture not being found, or it being replaced with a message saying it has been stolen.** The picture isn't really a picture at all. **
You've probably already come across lots of sites where you click on a thumbnail and you don't get a picture, but go off to some other site. This may be disappointing, but doesn't do much harm. There is a more dangerous variant of this where the link tries to get some code into your computer, either through an executable routine, or a modified Flash animation or similar. You should never run an executable downloaded from an adult site without testing it on a stand alone computer to see what it does. You should also ensure that active-X is disabled to prevent routines with false identifiers from being downloaded.Adult domain management by Elf Domains.