Servlet Avatars/Signatures

[darckonquest]

Has anyone ever tried pointing their avatar/sig to a randomizing servlet?

I don't think I'd ever do it (except maybe temporarily out of curiousity) because I have a thing about keeping the same av/sig/name so you keep the same identity... but I'm curious...

May code up a quick randomizer servlet or random byte streamer PHP script in the next few days out of curiousity.... I don't see any way it could be blocked (without costly/stupid checking measures).

-darc

[Fatal Rewind]

Yeah someone on here had that a while back

[fire.wolf [006]]

whats a servlet?

i use to... like maybe 2 years ago, when i was hosting from my house

i used mySQL and PHP...

i think it annoyed everyone here, because it wasn't set to change at a timed interval just every time accessed. haha!

so.... everyone saw a different signature and AV for me... LOL. on every page load

it would have been cool if it loaded different images on the same page load... but unfortunately browsers are smart enough to get the image once and reuse it if needed.... damn efficiencies!

then i changed it so that it would use a larger picture and crop and frame the new signature image

oh fun times with PHP =D

edit: wow i suck at the spelling game

edit2: Think i should resurrect the code?

[Testing Account]

^Do it. (Not that I ever see images or would even notice)

[Pøĸē]

where are you going to host it?

[Sincerity]

he has his own host

[darckonquest]

Nov 12, 2009 6:49:34 GMT -5 fire.wolf [006] said:

whats a servlet?

A servlet is the Java equivalent of a PHP page that loads up a different image on each load only it's at the byte stream level.

IE : you ask for www.darchorizons.com/test.jpg and if a random image servlet is configured at that location (you can write a servlet to do anything), it funnels the bytestream from an image on the filesystem to the browser.

So, test.jpg can be anything the servlet decides to push down the line.

I used this on a client website to generate PDF receipts on the fly... the link went to "something.pdf" and when that URL was accessed it gathered session vars and built a PDF dynamically, then pushed it down the line to the browser so the browser thought it was downloading an actual file... instead of something I built in memory on the fly that never had a physical representation on disk.

-darc

[fire.wolf [006]]

interesting...

[HansonCutter97]

Nov 11, 2009 23:44:01 GMT -5 darckonquest said:

Has anyone ever tried pointing their avatar/sig to a randomizing servlet?

Nope I have never tried that before...