AOL Email

[zoobie]

I'm trying to get an image to display via a hot-link in a html email in AOL.

Example:

<img src="http://host.com/me/image.gif"></img>?

All headers are in place and working properly in yahoo, hotmail, web and clients....just not AOL.

Possible?

Thanks

[scroots]

aol (all online ludicrus) doesn`t support html email, i think.
scroots

[joh6nn]

no, they definitely support html email. i get loads of it all the time in my aol account. but recently i haven't gotten anything with a picture in it. if i do, i'll take a look at the source, and let you know how they did it.

[zoobie]

Well, you may be seeing an embedded file that's actually sent along with the email.

The other way is to just point to a file on the web like my example above ...but I don't know if this is possible in AOL.

[mouse]

It won't display as the host of the image may be able to decipher information from the referrer, the same reason Hotmail opens links in its encrypted frameset thingy. I'd guess anyway.

[zoobie]

You may be right...AOL can display an embedded file fine...just not display a linked one....bummer.

[scroots]

there will be aweay of fixing your problem probably using embed, why not look on www.aol.com they have a whole section devoted to developers/web master with this sort of info on it.

scroots

[zoobie]

What's the address? All I saw is a bunch of new crud for sale.

You may havta be a member to access.

Thanks

[scroots]

i`ll find it they provide lotts of tech stuff info about there crud as people want to know how to code for there users.

scroots

[scroots]

the webmaster section..

http://webmaster.info.aol.com/

just your look they had an article on it

http://webmaster.info.aol.com/index.cfm?sitenum=2&article=500000000000042

scroots

[zoobie]

I think this falls under security issues like mouse said seeing as I've followed AOL's directions for HTML emails:

"The common theme here is end-user security. Malicious emailers can bury a wide variety of harmful actions within the HTML email, including programs that activate upon download. Alternately, as is the case with Meta Refresh, a user can be sent to another web site automatically. With URL Tooltips, the TITLE attribute is generated by the client so that malicious emailers cannot specify that a link goes to one site when it in fact goes to another. It is important to AOL that the end-user be protected from these potential security hazards."

The URL is to a linked image which poses a security threat if I'm reading this right...

This is probably why embedded images display properly. They're not linked to external sites.