img tags not working right

[Fedayeen]

Tried using them for my sig, and it just acted like url tags

 

[Deleted member 1424]

There is a section thats say 'Upload Signature Picture,' where you can upload an image to put in your signature. Then you apply that image with [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Hey cool, it worked.

 

[Fedayeen]

There is a section thats say 'Upload Signature Picture,' where you can upload an image to put in your signature. Then you apply that image with [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

yes, but i dont want to remove the old sigpic that is currently set.

So there is no other way to have an image in sig other then sigpic?

 

[Deleted member 1424]

I believe the system is in place to prevent a user from using a particularly large image (or multiple ones). As far as I can tell there is no other way to put an image in your signature, however you can always re-upload your current image at a later date.

 

[ifelloverboard]

The problem I'm having is where it asks you to either link to an image or upload one for your signature is that I'm getting a parsing error on the image I want to use...

http://imagegen.last.fm/Slate2/recenttracks/ifelloverboard.gif

Do you guys have a webdev on board or did you just install vbulletin yourselves? If you have a webdev could you ask them to look into this please? Thanks.

 

[Claverhouse]

Uh... I just explained on your original thread that HTML code is not permitted on any vBulletin boards because it has great security risks.

http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=4757

One uses BBCode on this and most forums.

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Claverhouse

 

[ifelloverboard]

Uh... I just explained on your original thread that HTML code is not permitted on any vBulletin boards because it has great security risks.

http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=4757

One uses BBCode on this and most forums.

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Claverhouse

The tags that you're so adamant about is an HTML img parser. I'm not talking about that function though. I'm talking about at the bottom of the signature panel where it allows you to upload or link to an img. The reason I'm posting the link is so whoever here that has control and knows what they're doing can see what's going on being as the .gif I'm trying to link to has a particular problem where as other images I have linked to are working fine in the signature.

It's not your fault I can see maybe how the average user would be mistaken. XHTML/XML/CSS/PHP/Ruby are all languages I know.

 

[ifelloverboard]

See Larry David there is saying "What the fuck are you talking about?"

Same HTML, jpg not .gif however...

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e62/ifelloverboard/larry-david-as-himself.jpg

 

[Claverhouse]

How fascinating...


It could be a problem with gif images, most of the googling suggested that the problem was more with animated gifs, which isn't the case here. Gifs are generally rather suspect since they can contain code.

VBulletin.com suggests: After uploading the picture did you add [ sigpic][sigpic ] to your signature?

Presumably he felt it best not to involve the / in the second instance.


AION Forums has a discussion on the problem and associated permissions here.


The best advice is from SECTALK: A workaround for uploading a picture is simply referring to a URL, but in the main signature text box and not in the URL box below the text box. You can use Flikr, Webshots, Photobucket, etc. to upload and then just refer. That's what I did and I finally have a signature I like.


To facilitate this I emailed Ragnar to change usergroup permissions to permit BBCode in signatures --- though this will be withdrawn if abused.



Still, hotlinking anywhere is strongly disliked here, and I wonder that you did not try the main option of saving the picture locally and then uploading it to the forum as the signature upload allows.



Claverhouse

 

[ifelloverboard]

How fascinating...


It could be a problem with gif images, most of the googling suggested that the problem was more with animated gifs, which isn't the case here. Gifs are generally rather suspect since they can contain code.

VBulletin.com suggests: After uploading the picture did you add [ sigpic][sigpic ] to your signature?

Presumably he felt it best not to involve the / in the second instance.


AION Forums has a discussion on the problem and associated permissions here.


The best advice is from SECTALK: A workaround for uploading a picture is simply referring to a URL, but in the main signature text box and not in the URL box below the text box. You can use Flikr, Webshots, Photobucket, etc. to upload and then just refer. That's what I did and I finally have a signature I like.


To facilitate this I emailed Ragnar to change usergroup permissions to permit BBCode in signatures --- though this will be withdrawn if abused.



Still, hotlinking anywhere is strongly disliked here, and I wonder that you did not try the main option of saving the picture locally and then uploading it to the forum as the signature upload allows.



Claverhouse

I would have saved it locally but it's a .gif that pulls data from the database (to reflect recent songs) If it were an image that remained static I would certainly just upload it to your server.

I'm not requesting a policy change or something all I'm saying is obviously from my current signature pic that there's just something wrong with how it's parsing the .gif. If the tags are allowed (I'm not really seeing the risk when anyone can join the forum and post [img] tags in the post as it is anyway.

Which makes me think it's there so you don't have people linking to huge images that break the page layout. The upload and link form have the ability to constrain the dimensions it seems.

 

[Claverhouse]

Actually we do allow pretty big images that break the fixed styles' layouts. Permitting freedom is more important than petty visual aspects: hacks for image resizing have been looked at, eg: for resizing large images to thumbnail which when clicked open the larger image

as in, in HTML:

< a href= "http://www.intp.com/fox .jpg " target="_blank" >
< img src= "http://www.intp.com/fox2 .jpg" width=" 100" height="131" border="0" alt="Firefox Redivus !" / >
< /a >


but they were unsatisfactory or old, like female politicians.


Since your gif is non-static, no matter how rarely updated, perhaps it counts as animated and googling indicated animated gifs have a problem in signatures, although not in avatars.

If the tags are allowed (I'm not really seeing the risk when anyone can join the forum and post [img] tags in the post as it is anyway.[/quote]

[img] being BBCode, which is allowed and should pose no risk. Allowing HTML code though is listed as one of [URL="http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=55566"][B]The Worst Things You Can Ever Do[/B][/URL].


[COLOR=LemonChiffon][COLOR=PaleTurquoise][quote]10. Likewise, never turn on HTML anywhere, including but not limited to posts, signatures, and private messages. It opens up cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (XSS) which, simply explained, allows a user to inject malicious Javascript into a page and eventually steal your password.[/quote]

[quote][I]Honestly, I have no idea why a HTML allowed option even exists, because the option unfiltered is website suicide. Makes me think of a certain forum I used to go to which accidentally allowed iframe code and someone inserted shock pictures in topic titles...[/I][/quote][/COLOR]


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