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Make avatar link actually hot link

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Red Squirrel

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I just made a dynamic avatar only to find out when you specify a link it just uploads it to the server. How hard would it be to make it just link to the original server?

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Not a huge deal, but just thought it would be cool to make dynamic image avatars.
 
From TFI:
What about allowing custom avatars hosted somewhere else (if that's possible)? I'm not sure what vB is capable of, but I know one of the forums that I help admin gave the option of 'linking' to an avatar basically, and it didn't have to be uploaded to our servers.

Then someone uses a Goatse avatar and claims they just hotlinked an image and the image owner switched it.

I've seen other vb forums that allowed you to provide a link to an avatar, but all it did was copy the avatar to the forum server - it didn't actually hotlink to the avatar on another server.
 
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