On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Rowe, Dolores A dolores.a.rowe@boeing.comwrote:
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