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Form of avatar URLs

When I started AVrAmTAR.com service, URLs were in form of http://avatars.avramtar.com/id-USERID.gif, where USERID was ID (number) of user in database. Then, a friend told me that anyone can just change (e.g. increase) ID number and see others’ avatars. I thought it was not a problem, as avatars are made to be seen, not? But again, someone might not like the fact that others can see his avatars. Then I’ve slightly modified system, so now your e-mail address is shown instead of ID. However, this also might be a problem, if spambots become able to recognize that user-AT-domain-DOT-tld is actually email adress (just replace -AT- with at (@) and -DOT- with dot (.)). I’ve came up with idea that I can change URLs to e.g. http://avatars.avramtar.com/avatar-MD5_HASH_OF_EMAIL.gif

I think that form of URLs will be the best choice, as other users can’t decrypt MD5 hash and therefore they can’t see your email address, nor your user ID. I will probably make changes to AVrAmTAR to get these links, and as I do not have much free time, until I find some time to do this, I want to see what other users think about this? Please vote:

Will you use AVrAmTAR services?

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2 Responses to “Form of avatar URLs”

  1. kaizen Says:
    December 21st, 2007 at 19:03

    AVrAmTAR avatarHi Nemanja, after another thought ;) I think better solution is some unique string token defined by user. For example, at the registration, let the user choose name for his/her avramtar for easy remembering. That way i can have this URL of my avatar: http://avatars.avramtar.com/kaizen.gif after that, I can use it on any place without having to go through mails or visit avramtar.com to copy-paste it.

  2. Avram Says:
    December 21st, 2007 at 19:23

    AVrAmTAR avatarYes that might be better than md5hash of email. Thank you for idea, I’d like to see what other users think about that?

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