OK...what Am I doing wrong????

[Jets22]

See if my photo works... [image]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/372183/picture.jpeg[/image] I am clicking on the add image and the enter URL is coming up..I enteredthe correct URL.....and te picture does not post on my thread...just the URL I entered?? I know if I enter the address I put in above...it goes directly to the picture I want to add to the thread. I've tried seveal times...what am I doing wrong here guys? Any help correcting this problem would be much appreciated at this point. I'm sure I'm just missing something. Thanks [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[logicnerd411]

It should be .jpg, not .jpeg (even though your browser interprets it correctly)

Heres the code:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>[image]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/372183/picture.jpg[/image]</pre><hr />

EDIT: And it looks like the server for the pic is down. Oh well...

Dan (have fun with pics!)

[Jets22]

Thanks Dan, so adding the jpeg at the end instead of jpg caused the error here at CPF? and the server is down also causing another posting problem? THanks for the help

[Jets22]

[Jets22]

Well, that produced a very small box a picture would go in...were getting closer....what needs to be done on my part to get the picture to a usable post size? Sorry for all the questions ...just trying to get this figured out.

[logicnerd411]

It's all right, I like to think of myself as the CPF pic fixer [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Well, I think since the server that has the picture is down, you might want to try hosting that picture elsewhere. I wish I could help you on that, as I usually do for everyone, but my server is ALSO down [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Dan (find another server!)

[Negeltu]

.jpeg is a perfectly valid extension. Why is it not recognized as one here? Just a curiousity... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Tomas]

UBB only allows a very limited subset of legit file extensions.

It' true ".jpeg" is a legit file extension, and came before ".jpg." It was truncated to ".jpg" early on because of MS Windows limitation of extensions to three characters - same reason ".html" was truncated to ".htm" so MS Windows machines could handle it.

Since UBB is an MS Windows-centric program, it was probably felt that including support for the legitimate but little used ".jpeg" extension was not necessary - or possibly the programmers doing the work did not even know that there were extensions of more than three characters - they are MS Windows types, after all. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Anyway, since UBB looks at the file extension to validate for itself that it is indeed an image file, one must use a file extension UBB understands and permits or it will be rejected.

This means that if the file is already in use for other web pages or whatever, you're stuck. Since a file name already in use can't be changed for UBB's simple mind without breaking the other uses.

It is also unlikely that one can convince anyone able to add ".jpeg" to the list of image extensions allowed by UBB to actually do it.

Enjoy!


<font color="#666666"> (Interesting side note: The machine I'm typing this on recognizes 122 different extensions for images, and can display the images that use them.) </font>

[Negeltu]

hehe.. Thanks for the info.. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]