Icon url invalid

[Kok0_]

im trying to upload this img [img]https://files.catbox.moe/gzauyv.webp[/img] (dont ask) as my icon using catbox but it says the url is invalid. any idea why? i also tried using Imgbb but got the same thing.

sorry if this has been asked before, i searched "url invalid" here and found nothing.

[vincent]

Hey there,

Are you keeping it in a .webp extension? Try saving it as a .png or a .jpeg if you haven't and see if that works.

[Kok0_]

thank u, i just figured that out when i saw the img link didnt work lol. idk why it was saving like that but i fixed it

[Starfia]

Vincent (or other admins) –

Similar situation: since the forum supports adding an avatar using an external URL, I thought I'd use my avatar from Gravatar, where direct-linking URLs are similarly formatted as a domain followed by a hash rather than an image filename. I got a similar error about an invalid URL.

Here's their example URL: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/205e460 ... 7710c08d50

To clarify: are all avatar URLs without a file extension (".jpg", ".png", et cetera) considered invalid?

[Sadness]

Vincent (or other admins) –

Similar situation: since the forum supports adding an avatar using an external URL, I thought I'd use my avatar from Gravatar, where direct-linking URLs are similarly formatted as a domain followed by a hash rather than an image filename. I got a similar error about an invalid URL.

Here's their example URL: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/205e460 ... 7710c08d50

To clarify: are all avatar URLs without a file extension (".jpg", ".png", et cetera) considered invalid?

I looked through the administrative settings, and I couldn't find a concrete answer to your question, but I suspect you are right. I think this might be a security precaution on PHPBB's end.

But! Good news is that I noticed there was an option for "Allow Gravatar avatars". I'm not entirely familiar with this option but I enabled it to check it out. So in this case you should be able to use that link you shared, but you need to select "Gravatar" in the "Avatar Type" dropdown in your profile for it to work.

[Starfia]

Good news is that I noticed there was an option for "Allow Gravatar avatars". I'm not entirely familiar with this option but I enabled it to check it out.

I'll give it a go.

[Starfia]

Hey, we have a profile image. (And the phpBB feature knew how to generate the hash to retrieve it and everything.) Merci beaucoup for trying that.

That solves for the one case of Gravatar's API, but I'll remain curious about the more general question of the conditions for "validity" of an external image generally.