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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. :roll:

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...

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<img src="http://url" alt="" />
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.