Question UnityWebRequestTexture.GetTexture behaviour changed?

Hello, I have some problems about get images from web.
Images might be JPG, PNG, or GIF.
However, the file format can only be known if the raw data is analyzed after downloading the images from this site.

Therefore, at beginning,

Code (CSharp):

1. UnityWebRequest request = UnityWebRequestTexture.GetTexture(url);
2. yield return request.SendWebRequest();
3.  
4. Texture2D Tex = ((DownloadHandlerTexture)request.downloadHandler).texture;
5.  
6. byte[] rawData = request.downloadHandler.data;
7.  
8. if (IsGif(rawData)) {/*...*/}

If IsGIF, I could use rawdata directly.
If it's not GIF, I could use Tex directly,

I could do these things in one UnityWebRequest.
it worked fine before Unity 2021.3.16f1 (LTS).

However, when I changed to Unity 2021.3.17f1 (LTS).and did same things.
If the URL image format is GIF.
it would crash at

Code (CSharp):

1. UnityWebRequest request = UnityWebRequestTexture.GetTexture(url);
2. yield return request.SendWebRequest();

I know the "UnityWebRequestTexture.GetTexture" document said that "Only JPG and PNG formats are supported."

But I am curious these behavior will crash after Unity 2021.3.17f1 (LTS)

Thanks.

 

I can confirm it started crashing on gifs since this version. Bug report submitted: IN-34327

 

Is it possible to load an image from an arbitrary location on the player's computer without using the web request? That would be great.

Oh wait, I could probably do File.ReadAllBytes and new Texture2D from that.