Avatar URL's not taking?

[Pskhaat]

I've got a URL that I'm using to scale my images down to 100x100. The forum thinks the URL is not of a valid image, but it is, and is returning appropriate Content-Type and Content-Length MIME headers:

Is there a reason the board won't accept this URL as an image?

 

[woody]

upload only, means it's gotta upload from your hard drive, not a link...there are also size limits to, not just dimension....

 

[Pskhaat]

upload only, means it's gotta upload from your hard drive

It says this:

You may upload a new custom image using the controls below. Either enter the URL to the image you wish to use, or use the upload control to upload an image directly from your own computer.

I'm stating the obvious, but there are two options, one is to make an avatar out of an existing URL and the other is a POST upload. Is it that the link does not work?

there are also size limits to, not just dimension....

Yep, they fall within your req's.

 

[woody]

interestingly, I can't even get that image to load on my browser...likely that it's protected within the site hosting it...

can you save it on your hard drive?

if not, then it can't be "pulled" into the forum from that site either.

 

[Pskhaat]

Yep, in both IE/Moz/FF, etc it loads. You should get a copy of my avatar. I've tried this from both home and work networks.

And yes, I can save it. This image is generated dynamically though though my site, so would like to keep it a link instead of an uploaded image.

 

[Pskhaat]

interestingly, I can't even get that image to load on my browser

I would guess that ih8mud should be able to see the site as it's hosted at Hurricane Electric.

 

[woody]

the forum software does not support dynamic avatar links. never has.

 

[Pskhaat]

One more question and then I'll let it rest, but, does the software support URL referenced links that are not part of the ih8mud.com domain?

 

[woody]

images inside a thread, yes....but not avatars

 

[Pskhaat]

Okay I see, even if I give a URL, it is still copied and transformed into GIF format, stored on the server.

I was hoping it would simply be an <img> tag that was served with the link to the image whereby I could program a dynamic page that would serve up a random set of images on every request. Oh well.

 

[woody]

some forum software allows that, vBulletin doesn't