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This is a carry over from the "remove powered by EasySocial " thread.
As mentioned, I updated to the latest easysocial, changing the image path in the settings. I logged into the front end as a normal user and uploaded a picture. I was able to view the pic. As a test I thought that I would send the 'link' to my wife. I "right clicked" on the image, (from my laptop), copied the image URL and pasted the link into a message to send to my wife's cell phone.
I was a little surprised that the image I uploaded was "renamed". The image I uploaded was: happysinkodemayo.jpg
When I 'right clicked' and copied the image to send the link to my wife, the URL was:
http://www.testdomain.com/media/testfolder/photos/3/5/6f9025145f55a142329f37ce5f8383b9_large.jpg
Not sure why "happysinkodemayo.jpg" was now "6f9025145f55a142329f37ce5f8383b9_large.jpg"
The new renamed file name is non descriptive and very un appealing. Meaningless if you had any number of them in any type of folder folder.
The URL link was so long that it was not readable, (the link broke, was not readable) on my wife's phone, so she got a "page not found" error.
I know this happens on normal emails as well, (which is why sometimes I use shorturl.com)
Josh Lewis pretty much explains what I am saying as well. I will paste his reply below.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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Chris, what your mentioning is one of the many reasons I believe a short url is essential. When a user hovers over a long url in the browser it is auto trimmed. As a result even the most observant users can be tricked by creating a fake site. Someone almost snagged all my site data when they had an email that went as host.com/bla-bla-bla(50 characters more)/fakeurl.com (they used sub domains to fake my host with a sub domain of .com and a long url so I would not see the real domain!). It's a long story, but the point is that simplicity in my opinion helps create security and really helps with linking. I'm not talking about normal security (hacks) but it reduces the chances of clever tricks which I've seen pulled off pretty well (unfortunately).
Even if my site had 50 million photos posted, the url is still pretty. Compare the url structures below:
Good:
stackideas.com/original/mark/50740517.jpg
Current:
stackideas.com/original/photos/3/5/6f9025145f55a142329f37ce5f8383b9_large.jpg (this one doesn't even have a high ID which means it will get worse)
As mentioned, I updated to the latest easysocial, changing the image path in the settings. I logged into the front end as a normal user and uploaded a picture. I was able to view the pic. As a test I thought that I would send the 'link' to my wife. I "right clicked" on the image, (from my laptop), copied the image URL and pasted the link into a message to send to my wife's cell phone.
I was a little surprised that the image I uploaded was "renamed". The image I uploaded was: happysinkodemayo.jpg
When I 'right clicked' and copied the image to send the link to my wife, the URL was:
http://www.testdomain.com/media/testfolder/photos/3/5/6f9025145f55a142329f37ce5f8383b9_large.jpg
Not sure why "happysinkodemayo.jpg" was now "6f9025145f55a142329f37ce5f8383b9_large.jpg"
The new renamed file name is non descriptive and very un appealing. Meaningless if you had any number of them in any type of folder folder.
The URL link was so long that it was not readable, (the link broke, was not readable) on my wife's phone, so she got a "page not found" error.
I know this happens on normal emails as well, (which is why sometimes I use shorturl.com)
Josh Lewis pretty much explains what I am saying as well. I will paste his reply below.
Does anyone have any ideas?
--- paste ---
Chris, what your mentioning is one of the many reasons I believe a short url is essential. When a user hovers over a long url in the browser it is auto trimmed. As a result even the most observant users can be tricked by creating a fake site. Someone almost snagged all my site data when they had an email that went as host.com/bla-bla-bla(50 characters more)/fakeurl.com (they used sub domains to fake my host with a sub domain of .com and a long url so I would not see the real domain!). It's a long story, but the point is that simplicity in my opinion helps create security and really helps with linking. I'm not talking about normal security (hacks) but it reduces the chances of clever tricks which I've seen pulled off pretty well (unfortunately).
Even if my site had 50 million photos posted, the url is still pretty. Compare the url structures below:
Good:
stackideas.com/original/mark/50740517.jpg
Current:
stackideas.com/original/photos/3/5/6f9025145f55a142329f37ce5f8383b9_large.jpg (this one doesn't even have a high ID which means it will get worse)
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