[I tried posting this earlier, but the message disappeared when I hit "Submit".]

I have chronic problems with people hotlinking to my images.  (I have problems with images being stolen, too, but that's another topic.)  I turned on hotlink protection, which seems to be working fine, except for Google's cache.

I had expected that my images would not be visible for cached pages, which is unfortunate.  But when I checked from my computer, the images showed up.  I was surprised but pleased.  Then my husband tried to view cached pages on his computer (same operating system, same browser, same networked cable connection so same IP address), and the images were replaced with the hotlink-prevention image.

I have added the various "216.239.*" IP addresses for the Google cache so the cached pages show up okay now.  But does anybody have any ideas as to why the cached pages displayed the images on one (and only one) computer?  'Cuz we're stumped!

Thanks!

Eliz.

That's part of what was so weird:  it didn't matter how thoroughly I'd cleared my cache (or even visited a certain page), or when I'd restarted my computer last.  The cached images displayed on my computer, and not on my husband's (on the same network) or others in other locations.  Everything was behaving normally except for my computer.

Eliz.

F5 key is now a hard refresh on IE and Netscape, or on IE you can right-click and (yes!) hold down shift, while clicking on refresh.  Are you sure it's not pulling the files off of your hard drive somewhere?  Sounds corny, but I've heard cornier