On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Rowe, Dolores A <[email protected]>wrote:
> We would like to use the capability of $wgAllowExternalImages from > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Linked_images#External_image_syntax > > however, some of the images we would like to display do not have an > extension in > the filename, even though they are *.jpg. So for example, the *.jpg might > simply > be named "StacyPic". > > Can you think of any clever way to get around this issue ? We are using MW > 1.15.3. > You may be able to hack something like sticking '?.jpg' on the end of the URL -- the ? adds a query string which the server (hopefully) will ignore but the old $wgAllowExternalImages code will think is an extension. Better though would be a proper extension for embedding external images, which could also do nice things like let you set size... -- brion _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
