if ( $avatar_mode == 'remote' && preg_match('/^(http:\/\/)?([\w\-\.]+)\:?([0-9]*)\/(.*)$/', $avatar_filename, $url_ary) )
        {
                if ( empty($url_ary[ 4 ]) )
                {
                        $error = true;
                        $error_msg = ( !empty($error_msg) ) ? $error_msg . '<br />' . $lang['Incomplete_URL'] : $lang['Incomplete_URL'];
                        return;
                }

                $base_get = '/' . $url_ary[ 4 ];
                $port = ( !empty($url_ary[ 3 ]) ) ? $url_ary[ 3 ] :  80 ;

                if ( !($fsock = @fsockopen($url_ary[ 2 ], $port, $errno, $errstr)) )
                {
                        $error = true;
                        $error_msg = ( !empty($error_msg) ) ? $error_msg . '<br />' . $lang['No_connection_URL'] : $lang['No_connection_URL'];
                        return;
                }

                @fputs($fsock, "GET $base_get HTTP/1.1\r\n");
                @fputs($fsock, "HOST: " . $url_ary[ 2 ] . "\r\n");
                @fputs($fsock, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");

                unset($avatar_data);
                while( !@feof($fsock) )
                {
                        $avatar_data .= @fread($fsock, $board_config['avatar_filesize']);
                }
                @fclose($fsock);

                if (!preg_match('#Content-Length\: ([0-9]+)[^ /][\s]+#i', $avatar_data, $file_data1) || !preg_match('#Content-Type\: image/[x\-]*([a-z]+)[\s]+#i', $avatar_data, $file_data2))
                {
                        $error = true;
                        $error_msg = ( !empty($error_msg) ) ? $error_msg . '<br />' . $lang['File_no_data'] : $lang['File_no_data'];
                        return;
                }

                $avatar_filesize = $file_data1[ 1 ];
                $avatar_filetype = $file_data2[ 1 ];

                if ( !$error && $avatar_filesize >  0  && $avatar_filesize < $board_config['avatar_filesize'] )
                {
                        $avatar_data = substr($avatar_data, strlen($avatar_data) - $avatar_filesize, $avatar_filesize);

                        $tmp_path = ( !@$ini_val('safe_mode') ) ? '/tmp' : './' . $board_config['avatar_path'] . '/tmp';
                        $tmp_filename = tempnam($tmp_path, uniqid(rand()) . '-');

                        $fptr = @fopen($tmp_filename, 'wb');
                        $bytes_written = @fwrite($fptr, $avatar_data, $avatar_filesize);
                        @fclose($fptr);

                        if ( $bytes_written != $avatar_filesize )
                        {
                                @unlink($tmp_filename);
                                message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not write avatar file to local storage. Please contact the board administrator with this message', '', __LINE__, __FILE__);
                        }

                        list($width, $height, $type) = @getimagesize($tmp_filename);
                }
                else
                {
                        $l_avatar_size = sprintf($lang['Avatar_filesize'], round($board_config['avatar_filesize'] /  1024 ));

                        $error = true;
                        $error_msg = ( !empty($error_msg) ) ? $error_msg . '<br />' . $l_avatar_size : $l_avatar_size;
                }
        }