When this thread was started I didnt know what yall were talking about all my smilies worked just fine but now they are broken. It also seems that some are working for folks that arent working for others?
The website the similes were being served from is telling you it is forbidden to access them in the manner they are being accessed that is why you are seeing what you are seeing. If you were to attempt accessing them via the image url you will get a 403 Forbidden error. But once again what would I know? Maybe I've prevented hot linking from off-site on a website or two in the day.
Taking a closer look at this issue, it looks like the source site (emoticoner.com) is down, not just blocking access to FHC.com. We might have to find a new smiley source...
That's what I was figuring happened. Must've either crashed or server issues. Happened a while back too. If the site doesn't come back online soon, we'll change to different smilies...
A site that is down can not answer with any return code at all, there will be a timeout message issued by your browser not a valid http server return code. They could have a messed up .htaccess file or rewrite script or the host has shut them off but in general hosters do not return 403 for this situation. I have a server side rewritemap script that serves nasty content to folks that try masquerading as various search engines in order to do content scraping. If a fake googlebot hit the site it can deliver content that will get the site that uses the scrapped content sent way way down in any search results.
Registrant Name: Emoticoner smiley Registrant Organization: smiley-web Registrant Street: Irbid Registrant City: Irbid Registrant State/Province: Registrant Postal Code: 00962 Registrant Country: Jordan Registrant Phone: +962.0777777777 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: [email protected] traceroute to emoticoner.com (192.185.180.133), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.464 ms 0.609 ms 0.778 ms 2 10.96.128.1 (10.96.128.1) 8.357 ms 8.375 ms 8.396 ms 3 rne-10g2-1-2.bxtnme01-rtr001.ne.northeast.rr.com (24.31.156.238) 10.751 ms 10.763 ms 10.790 ms 4 g10-4-2-0.ptldmehx-rtr001.ne.northeast.rr.com (204.210.69.242) 20.412 ms 20.461 ms 20.462 ms 5 rdc-204-210-69-49.ne.northeast.rr.com (204.210.69.49) 33.471 ms 33.727 ms 33.774 ms 6 ae-5-0.cr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.74) 35.945 ms be26.cr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com (107.14.19.26) 33.379 ms be36.cr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com (107.14.19.100) 30.227 ms 7 107.14.17.216 (107.14.17.216) 30.170 ms 107.14.17.218 (107.14.17.218) 27.434 ms 107.14.17.216 (107.14.17.216) 27.246 ms 8 te-0-7-0-22-pe02.111eighthave.ny.ibone.comcast.net (66.208.216.53) 32.083 ms 29.296 ms te-0-7-0-20-pe02.111eighthave.ny.ibone.comcast.net (66.208.216.45) 27.888 ms 9 be-12-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.82.73) 31.777 ms be-15-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.82.245) 32.864 ms 32.939 ms 10 he-4-11-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.13) 38.253 ms 38.315 ms 38.312 ms 11 he-4-11-0-0-cr01.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.89.186) 52.033 ms 52.109 ms 52.102 ms 12 68.86.88.234 (68.86.88.234) 67.214 ms 67.262 ms 67.255 ms 13 be-23-pe01.houston.tx.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.178) 72.163 ms 70.599 ms 70.644 ms 14 as8075-1.2001sixthave.wa.ibone.comcast.net (75.149.230.54) 67.379 ms 67.340 ms 71.401 ms 15 216.117.50.134 (216.117.50.134) 71.450 ms 216.117.50.142 (216.117.50.142) 71.507 ms 71.529 ms 16 192.185.0.186 (192.185.0.186) 71.498 ms 192.185.0.182 (192.185.0.182) 71.766 ms 71.845 ms 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * 22 * * * 23 * * * 24 * * * 25 * * * 26 * * * 27 * * * 28 * * * 29 * * *
Folks let Scotty take care of things, it will take some time. What was in that post with the IP addresses was the result of a trace route command entered by me showing that the site is hosted at a data center in Texas (216.117.50.134) operated by CyrusOne LLC who owns that ip address. The other information is from a whois command entered by me showing who the site is registered to (the domain name emoticoner.com). I used to help run a small hosting company.
