[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Donated PayPal to author and been using this terrific mod for a year or so now and it's great !!!

Running 4.1.3pl5 ...

We've come across something weird with it I can't figure out. A member referenced 5 JPG pics (all under 100k in size) using IMG bbcode and pointing to PhotoBucket.

y2ksw's excellent import mod executed it's scheduled task and imported 3 of them just fine ...

FR8002 imported as FR8002-1
FR8003 imported as FR8003-1
FR8004 imported as FR8004-1

It refused to import 2 of them titled:

FR-8001
FR-8005

With the first 3, a typical edit post showed links like this, as they are stored on our own server:

http://www.xxxx.com/images/imported/2012/07/FR8002-1.jpg
http://www.xxxx.com/images/imported/2012/07/FR8003-1.jpg
http://www.xxxx.com/images/imported/2012/07/FR8004-1.jpg

The same edited post shows links to where the two that didn't post as:

http://www.xxxx.com/ (Note: no reference to a pic at all)

There's nothing abnormal about the two pics that this mod fails to process, except they have a "-" dash character as the second character of the filename.

In order to get the pics to show for our member, I had to manually upload for the two of them from PhotoBucket into the imported directory and they display properly in vBulletin doing that. However, all testing I've done with test posts, consistently causes the import mod to fail on these two pics.

Anyone have any idea what's happening?

Is it possible that the "-" in the filename is causing a problem with this mod?

Thanks for any feedback ...

Regards,
Doug

The hyphen may cause problems with redirects on mod_rewrite, or maybe also with vbSEO which allows a final "-123" as a thread or forum indicator. Images should be excluded though.

Depending on the remote server, "-" may have all sorts of problems at their end, last not least an invalid image, which simply will never import because not conforming to the image standards. If it was for example a spoofed image (image is a script), it will not contain some tags in order to identify it self and thus will fail to load. It is a sort of inbuilt antivirus.