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I can't change my Avatar!

Aggelakis

By Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2010-01-29 11:58 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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Help! The Forum website rejects the address that my Comcast account requires for my uploaded files. Specifically:

http://home.comcast.net/~multisteveb...-17G-thumb.PNG

Why can't I use this address, and why can't the tiny avatar images be uploaded & stored directly on the Forum server(s)?

It was a nightmare just to get the image into my space on Comcast, and now I find out I can't use it in the Forums?

*pulls hair out*
*bangs head against keyboard*

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Create a free account on Photobucket or ImageShack and upload the image to that account, then you can use it for your forum avatar.

Or, you could follow the steps in Aggelakis's link and use the %7e replacement for the tilde. Or use Zombie Man's suggestion there to use tinyurl to mask the link.

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Originally Posted by Fortress_NA View Post
and why can't the tiny avatar images be uploaded & stored directly on the Forum server(s)?
Because they don't see the need to give everyone free storage.
And "tiny"? Download some of the animated GIFs people use and see how "tiny" they are.

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
Really? I can understand rejecting things like "<" and ">" to prevent injection attacks, but what's the harm of a tilde? (Thanks for pointing this out -- I didn't see the tilde in the message given when it rejected the url.)

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Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
Create a free account on Photobucket or ImageShack and upload the image to that account, then you can use it for your forum avatar.

Or, you could follow the steps in Aggelakis's link and use the %7e replacement for the tilde. Or use Zombie Man's suggestion there to use tinyurl to mask the link.
I think I'll try the %7e first and see if that works. Thanks for the tip!

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Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
Because they don't see the need to give everyone free storage.
And "tiny"? Download some of the animated GIFs people use and see how "tiny" they are.
True, but in addition to the 100x100 pixel dimension limit, they could also easily impose a file size limit. Off the top of my head, I would think that a meg is sufficient for an avatar, yet still small enough so that the space usage isn't excessive. Especially considering that Terabyte hard drives are now inexpensive. Currently there are 165053 members on the CoH Forums. 2 megs each for an avatar would mean about 350 GB of storage (or about 700 GB in a [1] mirrored array). Not really a break-the-bank one-time expenditure.

NCSoft, Please reconsider your decision to close down CoH. It has an extremely loyal following and enjoys a great amount of free support from the larger community.

I invite everybody to add the above image to your signature as a petition to reverse NCSoft's decision.

 

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Originally Posted by Fortress_NA View Post
True, but in addition to the 100x100 pixel dimension limit, they could also easily impose a file size limit. Off the top of my head, I would think that a meg is sufficient for an avatar, yet still small enough so that the space usage isn't excessive. Especially considering that Terabyte hard drives are now inexpensive. Currently there are 165053 members on the CoH Forums. 2 megs each for an avatar would mean about 350 GB of storage (or about 700 GB in a [1] mirrored array). Not really a break-the-bank one-time expenditure.
So you're offering to store the avatars of 100k+ members on your HD? Sweet! That's pretty nice of you.

 

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Well, I tried the %7e replacement for the tilde, and the Edit Avatar page just come right back to itself with the defaults again.



Is it not liking that it's not a "www." address? Or the hyphens? At least I didn't get a rejection page this time.

I'll change the hyphens to underscores next to see if that helps.

NCSoft, Please reconsider your decision to close down CoH. It has an extremely loyal following and enjoys a great amount of free support from the larger community.

I invite everybody to add the above image to your signature as a petition to reverse NCSoft's decision.

 

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Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja View Post
So you're offering to store the avatars of 100k+ members on your HD? Sweet! That's pretty nice of you.
Sure! But unlike a flourishing business I would have to cut corners, and the lossy compression used might not give you the best results.

NCSoft, Please reconsider your decision to close down CoH. It has an extremely loyal following and enjoys a great amount of free support from the larger community.

I invite everybody to add the above image to your signature as a petition to reverse NCSoft's decision.

 

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There are two things you will need to do:

1) Rename the extention of the image to be all lowercase - from .PNG to .png. vB is stupid, and doesn't recognize ALL CAPS extentions as being the same as all lowercase extentions.

2) Replace the ~ with %7E. Once you've renamed the extention, the following URL should work just fine:
http://home.comcast.net/%7Emultisteveb/myfilelocker/B-17G-thumb.png



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Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
There are two things you will need to do:

1) Rename the extention of the image to be all lowercase - from .PNG to .png. vB is stupid, and doesn't recognize ALL CAPS extentions as being the same as all lowercase extentions.

2) Replace the ~ with %7E. Once you've renamed the extention, the following URL should work just fine:
http://home.comcast.net/%7Emultisteveb/myfilelocker/B-17G-thumb.png
That did the trick! Thanks, everybody (and especially Kheldarn)! I had no idea that one of the problem was an extension made of all caps, expecially since caps in the rest of it work normally.

NCSoft, Please reconsider your decision to close down CoH. It has an extremely loyal following and enjoys a great amount of free support from the larger community.

I invite everybody to add the above image to your signature as a petition to reverse NCSoft's decision.

 

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I always forget about that little "stipulation". I have some webspace I use that places a ~ into the URL, so I thought I'd try putting the image there, and seeing if I could make it work. When I checked the link to the image you gave, and saw the .PNG, I was like, "Wait... doesn't this board think all caps is not right?", and went on to check it.

I'm glad we were able to help you get it working!



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Yay! It worked! Thanks!

 

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Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
*waits for Badge for helping others with avatar problems*
No badge, but I could offer you a bacon-wrapped burger:

 

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Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
Yeah, it needs to have a valid extention for an avatar: .PNG, .GIF, or .JPG. Otherwise, I'd be using a PHP script to make a rotating avatar. :P
If you have a host with Apache that supports .htaccess, you can make a subfolder make Apache send your .png to PHP, have PHP output the correct headers, and have a rotating avatar by accessing yourfolder/yourphpfile.png

.htaccess
Code:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .png
AddHandler x-httpd-php .png

or

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .png
AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .png
Then setup a rotating image script in PHP

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Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
No badge, but I could offer you a bacon-wrapped burger:
Works for me!!


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Originally Posted by Neo Shadowdream View Post
If you have a host with Apache that supports .htaccess, you can make a subfolder make Apache send your .png to PHP, have PHP output the correct headers, and have a rotating avatar by accessing yourfolder/yourphpfile.png

.htaccess
Code:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .png
AddHandler x-httpd-php .png

or

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .png
AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .png
Then setup a rotating image script in PHP
You probably shouldn't have told me that... >.> <.<



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