tech question ~ avatars

brownjenkins · 09-06-2004, 02:03 PM

ok... we have to option of putting in a "Avatar URL" if we want to use something over 19.5... i tried this myself, and it tells me i've specified and invalid URL... which i didn't... i'm far from perfect, but i copy and paste like the best of 'em

so, i'm thinking... either the option is disabled... OR

i notice is asks for "http://www."... i have lots of places i can host stuff, but no "www" spots... is this my problem?

thanks

BeardofPants · 09-06-2004, 03:24 PM

*suspicious squint* Yer not gonna use me pic as an av are you? 'Cause I'm not above photoshopping yer onto Fabio if ye do.

Mercutio · 09-06-2004, 03:43 PM

I just tried it myself--at first I got that it was not a valid file type (jpg, gif, etc., which that particular pic wasn't). I then tried another which was a valid type (and was from a http://www... website) and I only got:

Quote:

vBulletin Message

Error - cannot find an image at the specified URL. Please make sure that you have entered a valid URL.

I have absolutely no idea why, unless it is disabled.

***Earniel*** · 09-06-2004, 05:53 PM

I've tried and it works for me...

<--- See for yourself

However I simply deleted the "http://www." in the blank and copied and pasted the entire link of the avatar.

Mercutio · 09-06-2004, 06:36 PM

I found out why. The pic I originally linked wasn't the original source. I traced it back to the original source and then it got the picture (it was just more than 60 x 60 so it couldn't use it.)

brownjenkins · 09-06-2004, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeardofPants

*suspicious squint* Yer not gonna use me pic as an av are you? 'Cause I'm not above photoshopping yer onto Fabio if ye do.

oh my god no i wasn't!!! that deserves a new smilie

will mess with it again later

***Jonathan*** · 09-09-2004, 01:43 AM

I found one website (the website of an online newspaper) where it's totally impossible to 'specify a valid URL' even if you copy&paste like God himself. Maybe the site has some kind of procection?
Anyway, every other site I've tried to steal avatars from have worked. So I guess you're just going to have to get your avatar from another place, BJ.

BeardofPants · 09-09-2004, 01:58 AM

Ah, too bad Tom. Guess ye can't use mine after all.

*BoP who didn't even know that you could use urls for Avs*

09-06-2004, 02:03 PM	#1
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	tech question ~ avatars ok... we have to option of putting in a "Avatar URL" if we want to use something over 19.5... i tried this myself, and it tells me i've specified and invalid URL... which i didn't... i'm far from perfect, but i copy and paste like the best of 'em so, i'm thinking... either the option is disabled... OR i notice is asks for "http://www."... i have lots of places i can host stuff, but no "www" spots... is this my problem? thanks __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

09-06-2004, 03:24 PM	#2
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	suspicious squint Yer not gonna use me pic as an av are you? 'Cause I'm not above photoshopping yer onto Fabio if ye do. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

09-06-2004, 05:53 PM	#4
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	I've tried and it works for me... <--- See for yourself However I simply deleted the "http://www." in the blank and copied and pasted the entire link of the avatar. __________________ We are not things.

09-06-2004, 06:36 PM	#5
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	I found out why. The pic I originally linked wasn't the original source. I traced it back to the original source and then it got the picture (it was just more than 60 x 60 so it couldn't use it.) __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

09-09-2004, 01:43 AM	#7
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	I found one website (the website of an online newspaper) where it's totally impossible to 'specify a valid URL' even if you copy&paste like God himself. Maybe the site has some kind of procection? Anyway, every other site I've tried to steal avatars from have worked. So I guess you're just going to have to get your avatar from another place, BJ. __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

09-09-2004, 01:58 AM	#8
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Ah, too bad Tom. Guess ye can't use mine after all. BoP who didn't even know* that you could use urls for Avs* __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

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