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 Request: support for external images
ZiNgA BuRgA Offline
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RE: Request: support for external images
Checking the file once does not guarantee that it'll be valid forever.
Especially if you're trying to verify dimensions - it's trivial for a server admin to replace a small image with a larger one.

Thus verifying an arbitrary URL seems mostly pointless to me.  Perhaps the only thing I can think of is perhaps tell a clueless user that they need to supply an image link, though requring a .png/.jpg/whatever extension is probably suffice most of the time, and of course, the MyBB [img] tag does no such verification anyway.

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10-21-2011 11:37 AM
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RE: Request: support for external images - ZiNgA BuRgA - 10-21-2011 11:37 AM

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