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« on: June 01, 2003, 04:35:17 pm »

Okay, so I hacked an old upload script I had laying around to be designed for the sole purpose of giving everyone up to three avatar images they can store on-site for their personal usage.

It's not extensively tested, but it seemed to work well enough for the few trials I gave it.

Obviously you require an account here at EHOL and you must be logged in.  So the world of "guests" doesn't plague my little offering.  :P

Access it here!


Here's the ugly little throw-together.  ;)



Ugly!  But all it does is upload files, right?  I don't think we care how it looks.  :P

It will return the exact URL you input as use for your avatar, but just for the sake of explaining it, it'll always be in the format of:

http://www.el-hazardonline.net/El-Hazard/temp/forum_users/[raw username][slot #].ext

... no matter what the original name was when you uploaded.  [raw username] is the name the system recognizes you by, not your "Display Name".  For example, my raw name is "rob_jinnai".  [slot #] is the selected slot number (1 - 3).  ".ext" is .GIF/.JPG/.PNG, whatever format was uploaded.


Give it a shot, if you need this.
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« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2003, 05:26:43 pm »

Jepp! It seems to work!  ;D

Thanx Rob!!!
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« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2003, 11:13:14 pm »

Hey, great service Rob! One question though, is there a way to delete an old avatar from a slot you don't want anymore?
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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2003, 08:38:05 am »

No need.  It just overwrites.  And I'll bear holding on to an unused <75KB image file.  ;)
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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2003, 01:48:03 pm »

And you can afford to let them do this?
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« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2003, 01:59:01 pm »

The system I'm currently using has 6.8GB of disk space available, and 75KB is nothing relatively in the world of modern bandwidth.  But I've seen a lot of 400KB GIFs springing up on other forums, and THAT is quite a bit of bandwidth to spit out.  So, yes, by the way I've set things up, it's easily supportable.
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« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2003, 09:38:17 pm »

Very nice.  And very thoughtful of you, for your users.

This is probably a profoundly stupid question, but would there be any reason for a user like me to use a service like this?  Is there any advantage to a server hosting its images locally, for example, if Internet traffic is heavy or a user has a slow connection, and there's one less server to contact to render a page?  Just curious.  I'm a database programmer, but I don't know as much about the Internet as I should.
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« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2003, 09:49:10 pm »

I like your current avatar. :P

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Well, while there is time spent negotiating your DNS->IP, and that can vary depending on the name servers attached to it and how quickly they can respond, I suspect whatever's powering your end is actually better than mine, and bandwidth from multiple directions rather than all from me is better off for us as a whole.  So I'd stick with the way you are, this service is only really needed by those of us with no other option.
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« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2003, 07:06:42 pm »

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Good.  That's what I thought  ;D
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« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2003, 08:03:22 pm »

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No need.  It just overwrites.  And I'll bear holding on to an unused <75KB image file.  ;)

That's really a great service to offer. Thanks again Rob!
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« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2003, 05:17:22 am »

Ah! Very nice! Cheers, Rob...
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