Not planned Attachment URL Structure

[x3sphere]

Currently attachments are referenced in this URL format:

http://xenforo.com/community/attachments/background-roll-under-gif.180/

I'm of the opinion that having the URL end in its original image extension is a better choice. Not sure how important it is, but this would improve compatibility with legacy browsers. When saving to disk, IE6 for instance recognizes the above resource as a bitmap, even though it's a GIF.

So, in short, I feel attachment URLs should look something like this:

http://xenforo.com/community/attachments/180.background-roll-under.gif

It may offer a benefit SEO-wise as well. Sure, Google can handle both links when indexing images, but can all the other search engines out there?

 

[Cezz]

+1

 

[Brandon_R]

I think browsers are more likely to look at the content-type header returned than the extension of the url as that could be modified easily.

 

[x3sphere]

I think browsers are more likely to look at the content-type header returned than the extension of the url as that could be modified easily.

Good point. All modern browsers check the content-type header, so it's not an issue there - just the few special cases with legacy browsers like IE6 that only seem to look at the extension.

 

[Derek Ivey]

Good point. All modern browsers check the content-type header, so it's not an issue there - just the few special cases with legacy browsers like IE6 that only seem to look at the extension.

IE6 needs to die lol...

 

[Bulent]

Hi all
Is there any way to change xn image extension (....jpg.853/) to original image extension (....jpg).
Regards

 

[veraderock]

Just thought I'd share my solution:
https://xenforo.com/community/threa...ts-not-having-an-extension.88082/#post-985223