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Mar 23, 2010
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Cafilornia
IS this explicitly stated somewhere? I'd like to upload a jpg without playing battleship to find the right size.
Doc's claim the uploader will give specific limits, but the current incarnation does not.
 
Jun 18, 2010
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GG, If you open an account with a photo sharing site (I use photobucket), you can upload there, and link to it by URL here.
 
Mar 23, 2010
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Cafilornia
Tried flickr, but it doesn't have enough granularity of permissions to work for me. It's pretty much wide open to the world or not if you want to reference the link I'll take a look around.
At least with flickr, I can throw my gallery up there and grant remote access to people with passes, so it solves some other problems, just not this one.
 
Mar 23, 2010
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Cafilornia
So, from flickr, if I try to post an image via url, I get "error: Invalid File".
If I use the same url as a web link, it works, thought you'd have to click on the link to see the image.

I'm guessing this is because flickr html-izes the image and there is no file extension in that url, so the image upload tool fails to verify because it is looking for .jpg, .gif extensions.
 
Jun 18, 2010
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So, from flickr, if I try to post an image via url, I get "error: Invalid File".
If I use the same url as a web link, it works, thought you'd have to click on the link to see the image.

I'm guessing this is because flickr html-izes the image and there is no file extension in that url, so the image upload tool fails to verify because it is looking for .jpg, .gif extensions.

Yes, you need a valid image file extension.

I am not a flickr user, but you might be able to access the actually URL to the image by viewing the HTML source of the HTML page. Right mouse click on the HTML page and view source.
 
Mar 23, 2010
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Cafilornia
Bingo!
In amongst the icky stuff: class definitions, ascii art and "We're hiring" cr@p, there's a reference starting with
"<meta name="og:image"" pointing to where the static content lives.
Thanks Khight.
 
Mar 23, 2010
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Cafilornia
FTR, due to file size, I had to uncheck the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" box, but it worked. Hope this helps some other unfortunate schlub.
 

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