Topic: beta 6: problems with using images as yabb avatars

[ChromeCrow]

[Mike Bobbitt]

Hi Tony,

You're right about the avatar problem. It's caused by the image shrouding, which never allows a direct URL to the images to be displayed. So you're always getting a URL like this:

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URL to picture: [ http://www.mysite.org/cgi-bin/album.pl?image=/admin/stuff.gif ]

And YaBB chokes on the ? I'd say... You can turn off image shrouding, though that leaves your images open to remote links. It's a toss up I guess...

As for the 2nd problem, the URL should be http://www.MY SITE.com /cgi-bin/pic/album.pl?function=xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is your admin function code).

Cheers

[ChromeCrow]

great  the admin works now.  now about the shrouding, couldn't i disable that. and drop a ht access   in the album file giving yabb only permission to avoid hotlinking and still use the pics on the board for posts and avatars?   if this is a dumb question  forgive me, im new to all of this

[Mike Bobbitt]

You could use a .htaccess, but that'd mean users would be prompted for a username/password each session, and it would be very difficult to keep that sync'd with their YaBB info...