Problems with INDUCKS

[gadgetphile]

From what I can see, the OUTDUCKS domain has been taken over by a casino which means that the majority of the high res scans on INDUCKS (which used to be hosted on that site) gives you an "access denied" message. Any solution planned?

[Orora]

Have looked at the HR scans I uploaded myself... back to the thumbnail size images. Sad...

[hex]

Sept 26, 2020 22:33:56 GMT gadgetphile said:

From what I can see, the OUTDUCKS domain has been taken over by a casino which means that the majority of the high res scans on INDUCKS (which used to be hosted on that site) gives you an "access denied" message. Any solution planned?

The inducks team decided to not use the outducks domain any more, and when they didn't renew it for another year someone else registered it instead.

The gallery pages that used to be on outduck.org wasn't updated in more than a decade and didn't show all user uploaded scans that was uploaded from the inducks.org page and such. And as you can view a gallery of covers on inudcks.org too it was decided it wasn't necessary to keep both domains. I think the reason they originally decided on two was to keep the scans separated from the database for legal reasons.

No data is lost by not using the outducks domain anymore, but some links might be broken.

I just tested now and everything seems to work for me. Could you give an example of a link with "access denied"?

If you go to ex.:
inducks.org/issue.php?c=us%2FWDC+++1
and click on the cover HR link, you will get this link:
inducks.org/hr.php?image=https://outducks.org/renamed/us/wdc/0001/us_wdc_001_00_001.jpg

It looks like that file is on the outducks domain, but it really is not. Everything behind "image=" is just input data for the webpage to read and doesn't have to be a link. It probably made sense programming it this way back in the days having it look like the file was from somewhere else, and I can see it is a bit confusing now.

[gadgetphile]

Sept 29, 2020 22:46:26 GMT hex said:

I just tested now and everything seems to work for me. Could you give an example of a link with "access denied"?

inducks.org/hr.php?image=https://outducks.org/dk/gh/dk_gh_0053a.jpg


(Do you want more? I can see there's more than one broken link under that series.)

[hex]

Sept 30, 2020 13:03:20 GMT gadgetphile said:

Sept 29, 2020 22:46:26 GMT hex said:

I just tested now and everything seems to work for me. Could you give an example of a link with "access denied"?

inducks.org/hr.php?image=https://outducks.org/dk/gh/dk_gh_0053a.jpg


(Do you want more? I can see there's more than one broken link under that series.)

Looks like an error that needs to be fixed, yes. But the reason isn't becasue of the domain, but becase the image name is changed and a cleanup job is not done. Here's a quick fix if you need the HR images:

On broken links, add "_001" right before ".jpg" and the link will probably work. Ex.:

inducks.org/hr.php?image=https://outducks.org/dk/gh/dk_gh_0053a_001.jpg

[cacou]

Hi I confirm what Hex wrote. It's a technical issue with double copies of scans ending in "a" and "a_001". I will try to fix it.

[cacou]

Fixed now.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Nov 2, 2020 15:10:02 GMT cacou said:

Fixed now.

Completely different kind of problem, but could you possibly see about getting The Treasure of Yellow Beak a proper story entry? For reasons that are entirely unclear to me it's just listed as part of the issue, but instead of a link to a story entry/story code, it's got a red "(?)". 

[cacou]

The story has no code at present probably because we don't know for sure its origin. It might be either Brazilian, or Argentinian, like most of Destuet's stories at the time. We don't seem to know of any earlier print of the story in Argentina, but our Argentinian index in the 1940s and 1950s is incomplete.

Anyway, I've contacted Arthur Faria about that (I do not have the rights to edit the master Brazilian index myself).

[cacou]

Update: we agree this story is most likely Brazilian, not Argentinian. Therefore we will give it a Brazilian code, until proof of the contrary.