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Originally Posted by TMM_John
This redirect was put in place in order to track hits sent to a hosted gallery. the /gallery/ is a stats redirect.
I would say the issue more lies with TGPX than NATS. My guess is TGPX doesn't like a redirect being there whether its because of NATS or anything else.
Have you asked them why it won't work with the redirect?
We could offer dump options for "tracking URL" and "direct URL". This would of course then not give you stats on how many hits you sent to the gallery itself should you choose the direct URL. I think in the end however the issue lies with TGPX not being able to handle a redirect.
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Understood...and it's great that we can track hits to a particular gallery. There may be a setting in TGPX to allow the redirect. I'll have to check in to that.
It's no big secret why the TGPX script doesn't allow it in the first place. One word...cheaters. I scan through my gallery data base on a regular basis, looking for "bad" galleries. Those would be galleries that don't load at all, broken pics, thumbs or movies, redirected urls and more.
Back in the day it wasn't completely uncommon for a sponsor to offer list of galleries that we would take the time to load. Then a few weeks later the galleries are all down and the traffic is redirected to a site where we as affiliates got no credit for any sales. For those of us that take submissions it also protected us from those submitters changing a url once we accept their gallery.
In any case, it would be great to be able to get a dump with the "direct url". That way there would at least be a choice.
Thanks for getting back to me on it.