img src NOSEND="1"
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- Nairn
..Um.. Anyone have any idea what this is?
I think it's designed to stop email clients forwarding the images in an email if they're absolutely referenced.. but I'll be buggered if I can find anything on the web on it..
..anyone?
(..Spot which lucky schmo's going to spend his day doing HTML emails..)
- Nairn0
*ahem*
I've been waiting a whole 10 minutes for an answer to this now - what is wrong with you people? I wouldn't have had to wait this long in the old days, oh-no - I'd've had a host of whippersnappers buzzing my feet, all scrambling - trying to be first in line to provide me with some assistance.... pfft.
- monokrom0
I've never done html emails, so had never seen a NOSEND attribute on an image ....
When I Googled, every result was the text source of a spam email in an online mail archive.
The only non-spam result was in regards to a particular kind of security flaw in Windows ...
http://lists.insecure.org/lists/…
The author says this about the NOSEND attribute :
"I believe the NOSEND attribute will keep Outlook from embedding the file in the email message. This will ensure that the link is forwarded if the mail is clever enough to get the initial
recipient to forward it."
- frankbb0
i've just done a search and got this
nosave, nosend These are pretty much self-explanatory
and
- jox0
what if the receiver isn't using outlook?
- frankbb0
i found out, its so people can't save your webpage i.e. it doesn't cache it..
- frankbb0
Keep People from Copying your Webpage:
(body bgcolor="color" nosend nosave nooptions) Keep in mind that people on computers may not be able to view your page at all if you do this.
- Nairn0
Cool - so everyone else's as confused as I am? :)
That's just the thing - I have ideas about what it is - can even guess at it - but could I find a single, 'official' concrete explanation??
Frankbb - what makes you think that? Wouldn't that be handled by your meta-tags?
Thanks all... I love you - each and every one.
- frankbb0
the example i showed you was in the body tag... but anyway as always you can do things in multiples with html.. i think its for webTV more than anything now a days, because they can't use metatags that well.
I know if you stick it in a img tag it wont cache in your temp files, which means IE can't save, when you go FILE>SAVE in IE. You can still right click it and save target as though.
So really its a way to do the meta tag no-cache with out the meta tag..
- frankbb0
on the outlook thing, it will still download the image when you view it, but it wont download it to your temp files.. UNLESS you send the image with the email...
- Nairn0
Frankbb - thanks for your answers, though I've just tested the 'no-caching in IE' theory, only to see both images i "nosend-ed" in my temp folder.
I'm just going to assume it's an email client-specific tag.
I'm also going to assume it's some bastard-offspring from Microsoft, and henceforth completely forget about it.
That's only 3/4 of an hour of my time wasted.. Marvellous - thanks, Bill.