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Is providing image URL of this forum Stealing Bandwith ?
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:27 pm
by anjanesh
In some forums you dont have the facility to upload an image for your avatar. Instead they just let you provide a URL to your image.
My Question is is it illegal if I insert the URL of the my image of this forum ?
images/avatars/ca5320a34115cf9e55745.jpg
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:58 pm
by feyd
it does use bandwidth from this forum.
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:15 pm
by anjanesh
feyd wrote:it does use bandwidth from this forum.
My Question is does this forum ALLOW you do to that ? Like some site do - for eg. the Get FireFox logo etc.
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:20 pm
by feyd
technically, yes. Do we like it? not really.. Can we do anything about it? not really...
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:00 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
feyd wrote:technically, yes. Do we like it? not really.. Can we do anything about it? not really...
Hmm? Can we do anything about it? Yes.
No external linking anyone?
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:35 pm
by feyd
given that referrer information is passed yes, you can filter it.. although it'd be quite simple to fake that.. but whatever.. as far as I have known, we do not have an issue with it.. although I'm not a fan of people doing it..
meh.

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:46 am
by ast3r3x
Why does it steal bandwidth? Shouldn't it be better?
If you are linking to an external image, wouldn't the code be...
When it's sent and loaded in the browser, wouldn't that be strictly upon the end user to load the image? Am I misunderstanding the question.
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:40 am
by feyd
he's wondering about linking to his avatar that's stored on this server from another forum or something..
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:44 pm
by anjanesh
Ive alreayd done it. A J2ME forum doesnt allow you upload your own image. They provide URL though. So I gave
images/avatars/ca5320a34115cf9e55745.jpg
I could not find any violation of this forum regarding this.
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:05 pm
by jason
I don't have any real problem. Obviously, if this gets out of hand (too many people do it and it causes bandwidth problems), I will stop it.