Well, one idea could be to attempt to download the image prior to examine its size, but then eventually you have other problems, such as streams, which could never finish.

You could always limit the size of a file to be uploaded to be <8Mb (or whatever the nominal size of the image is)?

Hmm...

Where do I do that under vBulletin 4.13?

.. and how would vBulletin know the size of the file in advance of actually having to download it?

Thanks for the feedback ... appreciate it.. :)

Regards,
Doug

It sounds easy, but isn't.

It would require a raw socket connection and manual reading of the file, and stop reading if it has reached 8 MB. Then however, it would be possible to add a timer, too, and abort slow files as well. Also, it would allow to examine the file header before downloading the whole file and thus discard no-image files efficiently. But it would take a bunch of code and yet more options.

Then we remove the CURL code, but we'll loose the redirect features and SSL. Thus, it'll fail with Facebook, Imageshack, Google images, just to name a few.

I would say, it is a no-go.

Great idea! Do you know if this is going to work on 3.8.9?

This version here works for 4.x only, but you may try this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123338

How about an option to save to a cloud service such as OneDrive as a CDN and pull the images from there?

You may use on Linux an external service as a mount for saving, for example curlftpfs or sshfs, and a redirect for showing those images. All other methods (such as using PHP ecc) go too far off the road, because there is never one system identical to another. I have had solutions like the above, but in the end I came up with Dropbox for some cases, and for all the rest, a larger local storage ;)

can we import the CMS image ? that it post inside articals there ?

Thank you

Hi y2ksw, ty for this great mod, It has served me well these years.

I have a question before making a modification.

I am interested in taking a new .com domain and use images only, like a gallery.

My question is this. If I make a change in Forum URL replacement, and put a new domain, all new and old images will automatically move there?

Currently, my domain is http://www.nivelextremo.com the forum is inside / post / and the images are in / post / imgbackup /

If I for example, bought the domain like www.imgbackup.com or anything else and set

Forum URL replacement -> http://www.imgbackup.com/images

The old and new images, will move to the external domain? Or just new? or what would happen?


Thanks in advance