URL to host image using MobileMe iDisk

[tschur]

I'm trying to host an image as follows:

http://public.me.com/username/filename.jpg

But for some reason, this URL doesn't work.

Does anyone know why?

[scanez]

I'm trying to host an image as follows:

http://public.me.com/username/filename.jpg

But for some reason, this URL doesn't work.

Does anyone know why?
I don't believe you can link directly to a file, at least not currently. Instead, people would have to go to http://public.me.com/username and download the file from there.

Edit: If you are trying to host the image to display on some website, I don't think that is possible. Maybe instead you can upload it to some site on web.me.com/username, and link it from there.

[tschur]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I am trying to host the image for display on a web site.

This is possible using the "old" .Mac URL, as follows: http://idisk.mac.com/username-Public/filename.jpg

I wonder if Apple is simply not done with MobileMe and sometime in the future the "new" MobileMe URL (http://public.me.com/username/filename.jpg) will work.

[swiftaw]

I put files in the Sites folder on iDisk, then access then using
http://homepage.mac.com/username/filename

[iShater]

The .Mac one works great, no equivalent me.com one AFAIK. Anybody care to correct me?

[wackymacky]

umm,

the old url format works fine still (http://idisk.mac......blah, blah), so I'm not sure what the issue is?

When I try to use an .me url it just chages it to a .me one anyway.

[tschur]

The issue is that .Mac is soon to be defunct.

That is, http://idisk.mac.com/username-Public is soon to be defunct.

And in place of .Mac is MobileMe.

That is, in place of http://idisk.mac.com... is http://public.me.com/username.

But -- http://public.me.com/username is not hosting images. And some people will want to host images using their MobileMe iDisk after .Mac no longer exists.

I would have sworn this was obvious.

[Daveoc64]

The issue is that .Mac is soon to be defunct.

That is, http://idisk.mac.com/username-Public is soon to be defunct.

And in place of .Mac is MobileMe.

That is, in place of http://idisk.mac.com... is http://public.me.com/username.

But -- http://public.me.com/username is not hosting images. And some people will want to host images using their MobileMe iDisk after .Mac no longer exists.

I would have sworn this was obvious.
As far as we know, there are absolutely no plans to cut off anything that uses the www.mac.com domain.

Apple knows people are reliant on it for their site/e-mail/gallery/iDisk/whatever so it's being kept on.

Apple hasn't really got a better use for the site.

http://public.me.com/username probably isn't hosting images because it's just a redirect to the old iDisk page (on mac.com).

So that is why it wont work for you.

When (or if) Apple makes public.me.com/username an actual valid part of the service instead of a redirect to mac.com, then your issue should go away.

[macduke]

www.xs.to (http://www.xs.to)

I used to use that site back in the day for hosting images on my Xanga, when that sort of thing was popular. It worked pretty good.

Why is iDisk so slow?

[carletonguy]

:apple:

[macgenral]

...the old URL construct still functions for absolute link to files in the iDisk hierarchy. This presumes said files are in the "Sites" folder of that hierarchy. I have not tested other folders.

The construct is:

hxxp://homepage.mac.com/username/folder/file.filetype

substituting "tt" for "xx" of course.