URL for Avatar Not Valid? [FIXED!]

I’m trying to use the following link as my avatar:

http://scripts.cgispy.com/image.cgi?u=StrayDog

The reason is, it will rotate the image, so you will see a different picture each time you refresh the page. (Click again on the link and you will see.)

I want to use it as my avatar, but Forumosa won’t let me. :frowning:

What can I do? Who do I have to sleep with? :wink:

[It’s OK - I’m a vegetarian; I fixed it myself] :smiley:

For those who are curious, phpbb requires an avatar URL to end with something like an image file type, e.g. gif, jpg, png, bmp etc. If you use a cgi/php/etc to process your image, you will need to do whatever magic is needed to have that program end in an image extension.

I don’t think it allows .bmp. I tried using that one once. Only gif, jpg and png I think.

You can get a random pic working from your server too, I know coz we’re on the same server. I had some help from jlick, but I think I had to write my own code though, his didn’t quite work on mine.

[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]I don’t think it allows .bmp. I tried using that one once. Only gif, jpg and png I think.

You can get a random pic working from your server too, I know because we’re on the same server. I had some help from jlick, but I think I had to write my own code though, his didn’t quite work on mine.[/quote]

Mine rotates each time the page is loaded; do you know if it’s possible to rotate the image without reloading the page, kind of like an extended gif file?

Ta!

[quote=“Stray Dog”]Mine rotates each time the page is loaded; do you know if it’s possible to rotate the image without reloading the page, kind of like an extended gif file?

Ta![/quote]No, as far as the browser is concerned it’s just one picture with one filename, which can confuse it when it changes. Maybe what you want is a animated gif file. But I don’t know what (free) program you need to make that.

You can use something like Adobe’s ImageReady to link separate pics into a slowly playing animation like a slide show, then save it as an optimized Compuserve GIF, and upload it via ImageShack.

Damn, I think I uninstalled my ImageReady a while back. :frowning:

That’s possible though there’s a trick here as well. Browsers will display an image file regardless of what content-type or file name extension is used. So if you have a .bmp that won’t be accepted, just rename it to have a .gif extension. It’ll work even though it the server will identify it by the wrong type. (This probably breaks all kinds of standards too, but hey, it works.)