Gamecard not working on VPF

**randr** · September 3, 2014

Does anyone know why the most popular site for digital pinball don't allow the best frontends gamecard to display? Is it a size issue? formatting issue?

**Adultery** · September 3, 2014

Do you know what their sig restrictions are offhand? Are you getting an error in the forum?

**Tom Speirs** · September 3, 2014

I think it might be because the server is running on https. I already did mention it to Noah. Please contact him about it.

**randr** · September 3, 2014

I did ask Paul and sees no reason for it not to work

**neohusky** · September 4, 2014

Could it be that some gamecards show ppl

Now playing tables that are prohibited on Paul's site

**Adultery** · September 4, 2014

That wouldn't matter, it's a static image generated by the server.

**Les73gtx** · September 6, 2014

the exact error says that "unable to retrieve size of image, please choose a different file"

I have also sent Paul a PM and his reply was to ask what the is the size of the game card. I replied within one minute with the dimensions and that was over a week ago .... ... .. .

**gtxjoe** · September 7, 2014

I tried this in the past also. We can't get past the signature image check for some reason. Gstav somehow managed this during the early stages of the beta

**Adultery** · September 7, 2014

Maybe it has something to do with the redirect?
The image is drawn on the server when you go to that url, probably a .htaccess thing. Maybe it's trying to bypass the redirect somehow or doesn't like the redirect (or doesn't allow https connections)?

**Tom Speirs** · September 7, 2014

Like I said, I think its because its on https/ssl. His server is probably blocking outgoing https. I did mention this to him a while back but he might have missed it.

**Tom Speirs** · September 7, 2014

Also note that the image for your game card as posted here : http://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/les73gtx___atomicpin-pc.png

Redirects to: https://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/les73gtx___atomicpin-pc.png

**gtxjoe** · September 8, 2014

I was messing around with wget on my pc to setup a batch job that will copy my gamecard to a local webserver which I can use with VPForums. I got the wget image download working but only if I add the "--no-check-certificate" option, so maybe this is why vpforums is failing. Yes, the https is also an issue, so using the http links are a must for the url and image links.

DID NOT WORK

D:\GetPinballXSig>wget -O .\pinballx\gtxjoe___srt8.png "http://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png"

--2014-09-07 21:56:55-- http://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png

Resolving online.gameex.com (online.gameex.com)... 162.216.114.165

Connecting to online.gameex.com (online.gameex.com)|162.216.114.165|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently

Location: https://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png [following]

--2014-09-07 21:56:55-- https://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png

Connecting to online.gameex.com (online.gameex.com)|162.216.114.165|:443... connected.

ERROR: cannot verify online.gameex.com's certificate, issued by '/C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository//CN=Go

Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2': Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.

To connect to online.gameex.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.

WORKED:

D:\GetPinballXSig>wget -O .\pinballx\gtxjoe___srt8.png "http://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png" --no-check-certificate

--2014-09-07 22:01:42-- http://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png

Resolving online.gameex.com (online.gameex.com)... 162.216.114.165

Connecting to online.gameex.com (online.gameex.com)|162.216.114.165|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently

Location: https://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png [following]

--2014-09-07 22:01:42-- https://online.gameex.com/gamecards/pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png

Connecting to online.gameex.com (online.gameex.com)|162.216.114.165|:443... connected.

WARNING: cannot verify online.gameex.com's certificate, issued by '/C=US/ST=Ariz

ona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository//CN=

Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2': Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 152572 (149K) [image/png]

Saving to: './pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png'

100%[======================================>] 152,572 --.-K/s in 0.1s

2014-09-07 22:01:42 (1.06 MB/s) - './pinballx/gtxjoe___srt8.png' saved [152572/152572]

**randr** · September 9, 2014

This does work! Thanks gtxjoe

**open6l** · September 10, 2014

Yep - thanks gtxjoe - it works here too

**Tom Speirs** · September 12, 2014

Please try the following (rather than scraping my server, which against TOU), I've allowed access on http now

Instead of linking to https://online.gameex.com (Which you should be doing, I notice some of you are still linking to http which redirects)

Replace https://online.gameex.com with http://http.online.gameex.com

I expect this will work. Let me know. Ill update the app shortly to show the new link, just reinstalling my PC right now.

**Tom Speirs** · September 12, 2014

PS: That works for me so let me know.

**open6l** · September 12, 2014

Thanks Tom - works now using your method

**randr** · September 12, 2014

yes Tom that does work.

**Itchigo** · September 13, 2014

Could it be that some gamecards show ppl
Now playing tables that are prohibited on Paul's site

That would be my guess too. Not a big deal for me though.

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