| remote images [message #9722] |
Wed, 16 April 2003 01:20  |
philip
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Was looking at a members profile today and noticed a linked image that's hosted on geocities. This remote image (their avatar) does not show up, it's a broken image! But, loading it directly works fine.
Is this a new trend? I've looked around and it appears many large free hosts are disallowing such use. What happened to those times when everything was free free FREE!!! :-)
In relation to fudforum and a possible fluff feature, it can check the images and if hosted on known disallowers, it won't be allowed. Users should know better to not post the link but maybe fudforum can teach a few people why it's happening.
I put this in general chit-chat because, well, just because :)
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| Re: remote images [message #9725 is a reply to message #9724] |
Wed, 16 April 2003 03:15  |
Ilia
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Actually FUDforum does not link to remote images for URL avatars, the images are downloaded once and served of a local server. This is done mostly for security but it prevents problems due fickle web-hosts who disallow remote image linking.
Keep track of fickle hosts in nign impossible, since it's generally a good policy to disallow people to link to large files (images) off your server.
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| Re: remote images [message #9859 is a reply to message #9726] |
Sat, 03 May 2003 17:59 |
Ilia
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That's something else, that is user image, user has an option to specify a URL to an image other then their avatar that would be displayed on their profile. This can be anything such as a photo of themselves or a picture of their favorite car etc...
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