duck being demodded, is this dude still alive? this stretches past forum powers, someone contact the local authorities around his area and set up an execution date. the nerve of some people I swear, the sooner he is dead the better.
I take it that is sarcasm.
Actually, it looks (and sounds) to me like it's neither a forum, or browser bug. When you import off-site assets into a page, and the assets are in a simple html password protected folder on the off-site server, then you will be presented with ta login dialogue (produced by your browser) before the asset can be displayed.
Some browsers will try the anonymous user name and no password first, and some you can set not to even bother asking you if that fails. Either way, if the password fails, you won't see the off-site asset. The response will be 403, Forbidden. Which can't be displayed as an image.
Your browser should discount a 403 header response as it does not fit the image/* mime type it expected. Depending on your browser, various image/* mime types may be supported. For example, many Amiga, and early Mac browsers would accept image/ilbm files, as well as the usual image/jpeg, image/gif type images. Many early Windows browsers would accept Windows Bitmap files too.
I'm not so sure about the new vB we implemented, but if you include a flash file with a .jpg extension and wrap it in
