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vcf-vcard
Nimzy
Nimzy

Reputation: 71

Adding Photo to vCard

I'm trying to create a vCard containing the text below:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
PHOTO;VALUE=uri:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Intel_logo_%282006-2020%29.jpg
N:Raven;Test;;;
END:VCARD

according to this documentation ( screenshot of the part I'm talking about ) I tried base64 and it's working fine ( Contact app loads the image ) but in the URI situation it's not working ( Contact app does not load the image ), To avoid making a large file, my goal is to have a url in my vCard.vcf file not a base64, I'm stuck understanding what's wrong with my vCard.

basically what I'm trying to make is a vCard containing a photo that gets fetched by the url given and shows the photo in contact app of whatever OS the user will open it on (Windows/Android/IOS/macOS). I'm not using base64 because it makes my vCard file so big.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 13544

Answers (2)

Bill
Bill

Reputation: 1

Maybe hosting it on a service like Google Cloud would help, in that you can edit the CONTENT-TYPE and CACHE meta data attributes? It’s my novice understanding that smartphone OS is particularly wary of “unknown” file properties - probably for good reason.

Upvotes: 0

someguy
someguy

Reputation: 89

External urls are probably blocked by most programs, same as loading external images are blocked. It's a massive privacy concern.

Upvotes: 5

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