Has the Prospero attached something to the pictures that is different from Webx? When I try to access a picture it causes the censor here at my work block access with the “inapproriate content” warning. Is there something that can be done to correct this? I really don’t think Mike Smiths’ pictures of foundations and the like are really that inappropriate! Thanks
Frank
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Frank, you need to check with your firewall administrator. The firewall probably has a set or rules it uses to detect sites that you are denied access to. These rules can be based on URL or keyword or volume. The administrator may have actually found forbidden content being downloaded from whereever the pictures are being served from or may have simply noticed a really large volume of bytes beign downloaded from there, checked and found it was A) not business related and B) slowing down the network for everyone else, and based on that, included it in the Forbidden List. I can't imagine what keywords would be coming from here that would trigger some automatic denial scheme, but I also can't understand why "s u c k" gets bleeped here either. At any rate, check with your firewall admin and make your case there, that's probably where the problem is.
You are right, obviously the firewall has found a keyword on Prospero that was not on Webx. I was hoping that Sysop could shed some light on what that might be. Unfortunately, I can't justify a homebuilding site as necessary to my govt job with pensions, so I can't go to the administrator.Frank
We've had the same battle here. We really don't want to be the Web Police, and unless the site has offensive content or accessing the site prevents others from doing their job, what staff does on their own time, such as over lunch or after hours, we try not to make our concern. That argument has been successfully argued here and we have opened up the firewall for certain non-business sites for that reason (game sites, for crying out loud). You might try that approach, after all, keeping you happy makes you a more productive employee, right? And if you aren't doing your job, it will show, won't it?
Good luck, Bill
My firewall is stripping out all the pictures in the Gallery too. This used to work just fine. The gallery (both Knots and Breaktime) were one of the main reasons I used this site.
Like other users, there's no way I'm going to be able to convince the Admins here to change the firewall. Is there anything that can be done to fix this?
Pete