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Tweak says, "WRY!!!!!!"

ali(son) (aeris) wrote in capz,
@ 2021-07-03 17:10:00

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new icon uploader
HEY Y'ALL!! not really capping related, but i'm posting this here so more eyes see it.

the icon uploaders haven't been working for a lil bit, but i modified the old .bat file that's been floating around for eternity and i got it to work with ij again. unfortunately, it's only for PC users. (i don't have a mac and i'm not proficient enough in curl to adapt the code! sorry!)

anyway, you can download it here.

if you're a windows 8 user look here on how to install curl.

instructions:
1. place the .bat file in the same file as your icons you want to upload.
2. double click it and fill in your login credentials. if it's not uploading, try running it as administrator.
3. DO NOT PUT IT WITH THE OLD CURL.EXE FILE WE USED TO USE! it'll stop it from working & i figured that out after five hours of banging my head against a wall 💀 use the .bat file and only the .bat file. (after it finishes uploading, you can delete the login.html and upload.html files that it creates if you want. they don't do anything important so you don't have to hang on to them.)
4. enjoy your tiny faces of celebrities!!!

disclaimer: i'm not a programmer and i learned just enough curl this afternoon (i.e. did a bunch of googling) to figure out how to fix it. if you run into problems or it breaks in the future, i can try to help but i probably dunno what's going on either!!! i'm just releasing this into the wild in case other people find it helpful, but i can't guarantee its longevity.

feel free to modify it or reupload it and spread it around. i don't care about credit and you can rename the file to whatever you want.

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forsythia
2022-02-14 03:57 am UTC (link)

What a strange issue!

I tried the old curl file, and I even went to Chrome and downloaded your .bat so it wouldn't be a .txt I had to rename (just in case). No joy. So I downloaded a newer version of curl thinking maybe that was the problem, tossed its app file in with the batch file... and I thought for a moment it worked. It actually took its time with the icon files. But once I checked the test account, there were no new icons uploaded. I even tried multiple accounts, and nope.

Tbh, I'd be willing to bet this is my computer failing at life somehow. Would not be the first time it was just too outdated to function with something. (Fun fact: I can't update my browser because the modern versions invariably cause bluescreen crashes from graphics driver incompatibilities.)

Thanks so much for trying to help me figure this out! I don't want to waste too much of your time, though, and I can just keep using JW until I get a new laptop with Windows 10.

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	aeris 2022-02-14 04:25 am UTC (link)
	STILL, that sucks! i'm sorry it doesn't work :( thank you for testing it, though. i know that it needs cURL to run and that's why we used to include the curl.exe file Back In The Day (when we all used windows 8). but i don't have enough tech know-how to solve it. 😭 (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

forsythia
2022-02-14 04:30 am UTC (link)

Your reply actually has perfect timing, because I figured it out!

Turns out, to use the https/secure connection with curl, you need to have certificates. I tried just dropping them in the same directory as the bat file, but that doesn't work, so I had to go through the whole ordeal of installing it to Windows.

For anyone else on Windows 8 or an outdated Windows 10, here's how to do the thing: click here. Ignore all the stuff about testing zendesk, obviously, but for whatever reason that's the first place I found a tutorial.

Would have never gone down that rabbit hole and found the solution if not for you - and of course it wouldn't work without your .bat file - so thanks again!

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	aeris 2022-02-14 06:38 am UTC (link)
	NICE NICE NICE i'm so glad you found a fix. i'm gonna link your comment in the original post so other windows 8 users can see. (i'm sure you're not the only one!!) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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