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Originally Posted by EasyTarget

sounds like you're in my boat, your host turns off the allow_url_fopen function for security reasons and supports cURL instead.

vBulletin has said they plan on integrating cURL in the future and Andreas has said this issue doesn't effect him so he doesn't plan on supporting cURL.

Here's a message about it from my webhost. (dreamhost)

Thanks but that is not the problem.

allow_url_fopen is turned on, since it works with checking attachments from a VB 3.0.x install (=the current live site) but not for checking attachments for the 3.5.2 install where the sig image limiter is running on (= the current beta site).
Both installs use the same server on different subdomains.
Unless there is a switch/option somewhere in Apache/PHP/MySql that I missed both sites run on the same configuration.