Linking to non-JPEG images on web in Access report?

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Guest

Hi all -- very much a newbie, so please bear with me on this.

I created a report in Access using a table which contains a field with links
to images on the web.

As suggested by others, I've created a picturebox and updated the code in
the report to update the image in the box to Me.[imageLink].

When the images exist on my local machine, the report pulls up the images
just fine. However, the moment I update my source table with "http://..."
links, Access gives me an error 2020 and is unable to pull up those images (I
removed my error handling code just to check).

I think I've figured out that the issue is that the images I am linking to
do not have any file extensions (like .jpg). For example (this is not one I
am using), this is one of the URLs that fails to load an image in the report:
http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/TommyHilfiger/855612005211?$product_list$

Is there any way to make Access open this as an image in the report?

Thanks so much in advance!
 
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Douglas J. Steele

AFAIK, Access doesn't know about the HTTP protocol (nor the FTP one, for
that matter).
 

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