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John A B Wright <vintage@jabw.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>A few messages back we were talking about where I could store my music
>files so that my Demon website could be kept below 20Mb. One suggestion
>was to set up a free website at Yahoo (Geocities) and use it with links
>from my Demon website. Well I had fun setting up the Yahoo/Geocities
>site but when I came to use the links set up from my own website I got a
>warning message from Yahoo; they are wise to this idea.

The problem is that being advertising funded, they don't allow you to
link directly to content files (jpgs, mp3s etc) since the visitor
wouldn't see ads. But you can link to a Yahoo webpage or briefcase
folder which in turn links to the content. That's what I do. My download
links take the form

http://uk.y42.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/ACCT/lst?.dir=/NAME&.view=l&.src=bc

which directly opens briefcase folder NAME in account ACCT. The visitor
can then locate the requisite file and download it. At a pinch you could
set up one folder for each file so as to avoid any possibility of
confusion. You can grab the exact URL required by going to your top
level yahoo folder and copying the link URL for the required subfolder
(right-click on the link and select "copy link location" in Netscape or
"copy shortcut" in IE). This will work ok, whereas copying the URL of
the actual content file will lead to an error when you try and use it,
as you have discovered.

-Shez.
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