Way to avoid stealing BW when linking to pics

h/t to benburch over at DU...

This works for most pictures.

Say you have a picture you want to use in a posting;

http://foobar.com/JulieNewmar.jpg

Now, if you just link it to your DU posting, you immediately start stealing bandwidth from foobar.com.

This is simply not a nice thing to do as some websites pay for every byte they transfer.

If you change that URL a little;

http://foobar.com.nyud.net:8090/JulieNewmar.jpg
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It then uses a free public caching service from www.coralcdn.org. It gets fetched ONCE from foobar.com, and they are not made bankrupt as each of DU's horny guys look at your Catwoman picture.

It helps to preview the posting before you hit post as this gets the caching service to do the initial fetch of the picture, which can be slow, before your posting appears to the public. Sometimes you need to wait a few minutes and re-preview it before everything will appear as it should, and some web servers will not play ball with the cache, and this is how you weed those out.

ENJOY!