PM I received from the guy Elliot (TC Straps) who said he changed...

[Pugwash]

Guess that won't work, because you won't know what thread/topic the users are reading, so you can know who is loading your avatar

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Look in the webserver logs and you can see a referrer URL for each image. You will know what threads they are reading, unless you start storing the page IDs in a cookie-based session. If you control the avatar webserver, you can also force a no-cache on your image meaning it will be loaded every visit, as opposed to being pulled from the user's cache.

If it weren't for the fact I think it's a bit rude, I'd knock you up a perl CGI that acts like an image, and does give a mime-type of an image and even outputs an image, but also, when called, greps the referring URL for usernames. It's a lot easier than I first thought.

[cwai02]

Guess that won't work, because you won't know what thread/topic the users are reading, so you can know who is loading your avatar

hehe, you can send that guy a PM or email.