Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoLemmy v0.19.4 Release - Image Proxying and Federation improvementsjoin-lemmy.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10 cross-posted to: lemmy@lemmy.mlannouncements@lemmy.ml
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkLemmy v0.19.4 Release - Image Proxying and Federation improvementsjoin-lemmy.orgHal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square11fedilink cross-posted to: lemmy@lemmy.mlannouncements@lemmy.ml
minus-squaretaaz@biglemmowski.winlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 months ago What a dumb way to do image proxying. This is about proxying external images, URL rewrite won’t work unless the image is also downloaded and hosted by the instance (which seems even worse for many reasons). Or am I missing something here?
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoLemmy will rewrite the image URLs when saving a post. But instead the URL should be rewritten when loading the post. That way the original URL wouldn’t get lost and it would also work for old posts.
This is about proxying external images, URL rewrite won’t work unless the image is also downloaded and hosted by the instance (which seems even worse for many reasons).
Or am I missing something here?
Lemmy will rewrite the image URLs when saving a post.
But instead the URL should be rewritten when loading the post. That way the original URL wouldn’t get lost and it would also work for old posts.