GIF89a?

[Tim Weaver]

Does anyone know where or why GIF89a would come up in Actinic?

The following are appearing on our log analysis as file names giving rise to a redirection:

/acatalog/GIF89a

and

/acatalog/GIF89a/x01

but I cannot find any references to them anywhere.

[NormanRouxel]

These are the first few bytes of a GIF file. It's possible you have a misnamed image (i.e. <something>.html, etc instead of <something>.gif) and that the file is being interpreted as HTML instead of a graphic.


Norman

[Tim Weaver]

Norman

I thought the same, so I had spent some time searching through the templates source looking for this, but to no avail.

I also searched postings on the Actinic Community and came up with one other reference as follows:

Its the image that im having problems with, as it just seems to want to put the image name and not the actual graphic. Ive tried various configs but nothing seems to work.
It either lists it as GIF89a( or the actual filename.

This seemed like a strange conincidence and my belief is that it is being generated by Actinic when there is a custom property set up with an image incorrectly. So I have now searched the source of the generated code and found the following references in the extended info popups.

<img src="GIF89a" width="8" height="8" alt="">

Tracing this back, I found that I had a custom variable for including a second image in pop-ups, for which the default was set up as spacer.gif. However, it was erroneously set to use contents, and I am guessing that GIF89a is the first few characters extracted from the actual gif file when generating the pages. So the problem would only occur for pop-ups where I had not specified a second image.

So hopefully, problem now fixed!