Jekyl
Level 96 ·
@everyone
So, I tried a whole bunch of tricks, workarounds, and back doors to get images into the forums.
Short answer: You can't. 😂
Even images hosted on approved sites like Klipy won't embed in forum posts.
I can get images to display using browser developer tools, but that's only on my screen. Refresh the page, and they're gone.
From what I found, the forum uses a pretty restrictive parsing system. It recognizes approved formatting like colors, font sizes, and, but when you try to embed images or HTML, it either treats the code as plain text or refuses to render it.
And that's probably intentional for security reasons.
One of the biggest concerns with allowing unrestricted HTML and embedded content is something called Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
Basically, if a website isn't careful about what code users can submit, somebody could potentially sneak malicious scripts into a post. Then, when another player views that post, the malicious code could execute in their browser, potentially exposing sensitive information or performing unauthorized actions.
That's why websites use things like HTML sanitization, restricted formatting, and Content Security Policies to control what gets displayed and executed.
I tested several approaches, including direct image URLs, BBCode, HTML, iframes, and browser-side injection. None produced a persistent image in the forum.
Now, I can't say with certainty that security is Ruler's specific reason for disabling images without asking him, but given how the site is built and how these restrictions behave, it's a reasonable explanation.
So, no pictures in the forums. No problems. 😂
And for what it's worth, the security controls I encountered did exactly what they were supposed to do.
So, I tried a whole bunch of tricks, workarounds, and back doors to get images into the forums.
Short answer: You can't. 😂
Even images hosted on approved sites like Klipy won't embed in forum posts.
I can get images to display using browser developer tools, but that's only on my screen. Refresh the page, and they're gone.
From what I found, the forum uses a pretty restrictive parsing system. It recognizes approved formatting like colors, font sizes, and
quotes
And that's probably intentional for security reasons.
One of the biggest concerns with allowing unrestricted HTML and embedded content is something called Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
Basically, if a website isn't careful about what code users can submit, somebody could potentially sneak malicious scripts into a post. Then, when another player views that post, the malicious code could execute in their browser, potentially exposing sensitive information or performing unauthorized actions.
That's why websites use things like HTML sanitization, restricted formatting, and Content Security Policies to control what gets displayed and executed.
I tested several approaches, including direct image URLs, BBCode, HTML, iframes, and browser-side injection. None produced a persistent image in the forum.
Now, I can't say with certainty that security is Ruler's specific reason for disabling images without asking him, but given how the site is built and how these restrictions behave, it's a reasonable explanation.
So, no pictures in the forums. No problems. 😂
And for what it's worth, the security controls I encountered did exactly what they were supposed to do.
