Habbo Avatars Broken?

[Yonder]

Is it me or if you try to embed habbo images they wont load unless you visit them directly first to create a cookie?

Test:
http://www.habbo.com/habbo-imaging/avatarimage?user=yonder454&action=&direction=4&head_direction=3&gesture=sml&size=1.gif

I have been playing with stuff and trying to get a habbo image based on a database field but it shows up with the red X until i go to the image url.

Did i miss something? Have they changed something? I noticed this with a few habbo imagers too.

Edit: Basically you cannot load habbo images unless you have first visited habbo.com* in any way. Kind of hard to create Habbo image generators like this.


I put this in design and dev because im trying to get it to work it is not news or a rumour

[Samantha]

Is it me or if you try to embed habbo images they wont load unless you visit them directly first to create a cookie?

Test:
http://www.habbo.com/habbo-imaging/avatarimage?user=yonder454&action=&direction=4&head_direction=3&gesture=sml&size=1.gif

I have been playing with stuff and trying to get a habbo image based on a database field but it shows up with the red X until i go to the image url.

Did i miss something? Have they changed something? I noticed this with a few habbo imagers too.

Edit: Basically you cannot load habbo images unless you have first visited habbo.com* in any way. Kind of hard to create Habbo image generators like this.


I put this in design and dev because im trying to get it to work it is not news or a rumour


Could be because homepages don't work, they probably need the avatar off that.

[Calvin]

I noticed this the other day when I visited the Habbox Staff List and none of the images were working. Seems to be working fine when I visit it now but it's broken on the generators. If it requires Habbo.com to be visited then maybe include an iFrame before generating the image on the page for a temorary fix. Hopefully it isn't permanent though.


Could be because homepages don't work, they probably need the avatar off that.Nah, I'm sure the homepages base the image off that URL.

[Calvin]

edit; the URL below seems to be working fine when I grab it with GD.

http://habbo.com/habbo-imaging/avatarimage?user=skizzling&action=wav&direction=3&head_direction=3&gesture=sml&size=l&img_format=gif


http://habbo.com/habbo-imaging/avatarimage?user=" . $habbo . "&action=wav&direction=3&head_direction=3&gesture=sml&size=l&img_format=gif
Yonder;

[Yonder]

Calvin;

GD will work if the user has visited habbo.com* and has the temp cookie. But will show broken image if they don't.

Basically what i was trying to do:

User registers:
-username
-pass
-email
-habbo name

Then when they login pull the habbo name from the database and insert it:


<img src="http://habbo.com/habbo-imaging/avatarimage?user=' . $habboname . '&action=wav&direction=3&head_direction=3&gesture= sml&size=l&img_format=gif />

So it will show their habbo on the site. However if they haven't visited Habbo.com and have cleared their cookies or the cookie has expired it will show a broken image.

So then i was thinking i'll grab the image first store it on my host and update it every time they login or X.


<?php copy('http://habbo.com/habbo-imaging/avatarimage?user=" . $habboname . "&action=wav&direction=3&head_direction=3&gesture= sml&size=l&img_format=gif', 'avatars/" . $habboname . ".gif); ?>

Then instead:

<img src="avatars/' . $habboname . '.gif" />

But that still doesn't work, grr.

I am currently trying to wrap my head around using cURL using the cookiejar but haven't quite figured that part out yet.


curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, dirname(FILE) . '/cookie.txt');


Calvin Try deleting your cookies and see if you can load that GD. Or even better link me to the GD file you created if you have it on a public server.

The Habbox Staff page doesn't work for me after clearing my cookies.

Samanfa; Like Calvin said its the other way around.


Test:
http://habbo.com/habbo-imaging/avatarimage?user=yonder454&action=&direction=4&head_direction=3&gesture=sml&size=s&img_format=gif

http://www.habbo.com/habbo-imaging/avatarimage?user=yonder454&action=&direction=4&head_direction=3&gesture=sml&size=s&img_format=gif


So further investigation it seems www.habbo.com doesn't work but habbo.com does. Can anyone confirm this?

[Calvin]

So further investigation it seems www.habbo.com (http://www.habbo.com) doesn't work but habbo.com does. Can anyone confirm this?It seems Habbo must have changed the settings so only habbo.com works.