Gemberkoekje wrote:Can't you put a size-constraint on external links? Can't be that hard to do PHP-programmaticaly i think... although im bad at PHPBB forums *too much code hahaha :P*
It's harder than you think. I actually tried to do this a while back and wasn't met with happy super fun results.
The built-in gd library can only work on images that are local -- this might have changed in _very_ recent versions of PHP, but I don't think the .org is running the PHP bleeding edge.
One way to do it is to just issue an HTTP GET request to a site every time an avatar is changed, intercept the headers, and check the Content-Length field. There's a big problem with that, though: Manual socket code to check one stupid thing. It's unnecessary complexity.
