Avatars are not allowed to be linked remotely anymore

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Avatars are not allowed to be linked remotely anymore

Post by kv83 »

Hello,

we had some problems recently with remotly linked avatars. To ensure a reliable (and faster) forum, we enabled the upload of avatars. Your avatar may be max. 96x80 pixels and 60kb.

Sorry for the trouble this may cause.

Greetings,
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Post by kalan_vod »

Thats cool KV, I am just glad you guys got the error fixed!
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finally got myself an avatar...
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Post by blueskies »

was this the prob w/ my account? I didn't even think about that. I had my ava and sig on my server, which is now unplugged. oops!
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Eh...? Does phpBB manually check each avatar exists before writing the <img> tag? Bizarre o_O
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Post by Andy_J »

No, it was just the browser waiting on the server the <img> was on.


And yeah, now I have to actually read names again...
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AndySoft wrote:No, it was just the browser waiting on the server the <img> was on.


And yeah, now I have to actually read names again...
Surely any sane browser would download each image seperately, and display a broken image link if it couldn't find it?
For example, Image won't stop the page loading, but it will not display a correct image.
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Post by Timendus »

Yes, I don't really get it either. But the broken link image gets shown as soon as your browser gets a 404 or something from the server that it's supposed to be on. Perhaps it wouldn't load if the server doesn't respond properly or not at all, even though it's connected and listening. But that seems highly unlikely.
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Post by kv83 »

Guys, it was the resize mod which caused trouble. It tried to resize a non-existing image... After removing that mod, there were avatar's which were so big that they fucked up the forum.

To end all troubles, I disabled remote linking... which shouldn't be a problem :)
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kv83 wrote:Guys, it was the resize mod which caused trouble. It tried to resize a non-existing image... After removing that mod, there were avatar's which were so big that they fucked up the forum.

To end all troubles, I disabled remote linking... which shouldn't be a problem :)
That's just bad coding of the resize mod.
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Post by Jim e »

Personally Im convinced the phpbb mods are all buggered. The dam things can't work together and always cause problems.
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Post by tr1p1ea »

I dont know why some people need massive avatar's anyway. Let the avatar troubles end!
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Post by benryves »

So, yes - the resize mod checked images on every page? That's what I meant as stupid (as it should only need to check on upload). ;)
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Post by Andy_J »

Except then the image could be changed remotely without it knowing it.

I think a simple "hey does this file even exist" check in the resize mod should fix it... Of course, if the server is down when it does that check, it doesn't do much for you. Unless there's a way to specify the timeout for remote fopens....
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Post by benryves »

True, I didn't think of that.
It could always start by pinging the server, I suppose.
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