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[nycphp-talk] Uploading animated gifs

Greg Faber greg at click3x.com
Mon Mar 29 17:43:21 EST 2004


I did some experimenting and I think it might be the result of a 
resizing function I am using because if I upload the files without 
resizing them, they get served OK. I think I found the source of my 
anguish.

On Mar 29, 2004, at 4:50 PM, Michael Southwell wrote:

> At 04:38 PM 3/29/2004, you wrote:
>> Is there something special that needs to be done in order to upload 
>> animated GIFs to a webserver via a post-form?
>>
>> The reason I am asking this is that I designed a small 
>> "content-management system" (ie: extranet) where users can post 
>> photos, movie-clips and documents. Everything uploads fine except for 
>> when I upload an animated gif file. For example, when I upload a 20 
>> KB animated gif, the file in the uploads directory is 4KB and doesn't 
>> display as what it should be. It won't even open in Preview or 
>> Photoshop or ImageReady . I CAN open it in a web browser and it's 
>> some illegible graphic that says something like "Error Loading 
>> /Library/WebServer" but I'm not sure (I've attached the graphic).
>
> is the path to the desired gif correct?  This looks like an error 
> message transformed into an image.
>
>
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