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Quote from: theymos on December 12, 2013, 08:30:18 AM

Coral CDN doesn't support HTTPS.

Is it so hard to make the code a little bit more complicated just to support GIFS? I suppose it renders the image into a buffer and then renders an image from that buffer, to be safe from bad binary data hidden in an image?

If it's not doing that to be super-safe, FOR GOD SAKE PROXY IT BYTE FOR BYTE.

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And it was 404'ing earlier today.

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Coral CDN doesn't support HTTPS.

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I have find a solution to animated GIFs

Use CoralCDN (http://www.coralcdn.org/) when the image is a gif to make them move.

Just append .nyud.net to the end of the domain.

Example:
http://i.imgur.com/VfUsRPB.gif
http://i.imgur.com.nyud.net/VfUsRPB.gif

http://i.imgur.com/9qq1xOl.gif
http://i.imgur.com.nyud.net/9qq1xOl.gif

Also, the little ICQ status icon below someone profile (when posting in a thread, below his avatar) is loaded in HTTP.
http://status.icq.com/online.gif?img=5&icq=235892831

Please load it with the proxy.

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My own feeling is that it's not worth worrying about. If people are that paranoid about their privacy, they should take their own precautions. Embedded images are the way the web works. If you don't like them, there's lynx or www or you can disable images or there's probably 1/2 dozen plugins for firefox (There used to be a disable images setting. Is it still there?) or you can use iptables or a configured proxy or probably 50 other solutions.

Frankly I'd just like the animated gifs back. Though I'm not upset that the bandwidth bills have dropped for ChartBuddy.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Permissions.default.image

Quote

Possible values and their effects

1
Allow all images to load, regardless of origin. (Default)
2
Block all images from loading.
3
Prevent third-party images from loading.

And is it not an issue that instead of privacy potentially being (minimally) violated by a forum member, our links have now been handed over en-mass to some company in the Netherlands.

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Quote from: justusranvier on December 03, 2013, 01:17:13 PM

Quote from: gweedo on December 03, 2013, 01:16:00 PM

They are hosted on the forum's server so their would be no benefit to proxing them.

Not all of them are.

Some people have their avatars set as a remote URL.

I thought the forum reached out and downloaded them locally if that was the case.

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Quote from: gweedo on November 23, 2013, 05:06:49 PM

Quote from: theymos on November 23, 2013, 04:55:31 PM

Does anyone know of another reliable HTTPS proxy that would work? I'd prefer that the forum not do this itself, as we'd then need to worry about abuse, legal issues, etc.

If you or anyone wants a image proxy script that doesn't break the gifs and proxies them as well, you can contact me.

I wrote it in an hour so it could use a few more optimizations but it works for the most part.

I'm guessing the proxy actually re-writes gifs which is what breaks them. If it was simply caching them, it would not be an issue. It depends on whether this rewriting is a requirement or not.

If caching/proxy is all that's required, something like Squid should be able to handle it.

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Quote from: justusranvier on December 03, 2013, 01:01:12 PM

It looks like some avatar images are not being proxied.

They are hosted on the forum's server so their would be no benefit to proxing them.

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that's kinda retarded that it breaks gif images. what, was this written by an 8 year old?

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Quote from: rme on November 24, 2013, 03:05:36 PM

Theymos, the little IM status icons are causing mixed content alert:

http://status.icq.com/online.gif?img=5&icq=235892813
http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=the_spoon.geo%40yahoo.com&m=g&t=0

Fixed:
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=status.icq.com%2Fonline.gif%3Fimg%3D5%26icq%3D235892813&fnr
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=opi.yahoo.com%2Fonline%3Fu%3Dthe_spoon.geo%2540yahoo.com%26m%3Dg%26t%3D0&fnr

Also, you sould urlencode() the image url before concatenating to https://images.weserv.nl/?url=

Still not fixed,

example here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3742796

Mixed content

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Doesn't use these forums that often.

Quote from: gweedo on December 03, 2013, 01:16:00 PM

Quote from: justusranvier on December 03, 2013, 01:01:12 PM

It looks like some avatar images are not being proxied.

They are hosted on the forum's server so their would be no benefit to proxing them.

Well, what if I wanted to serve my avatar from http://whiskers75.com/codercat?

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Quote from: gweedo on December 03, 2013, 01:16:00 PM

They are hosted on the forum's server so their would be no benefit to proxing them.

Not all of them are.

Some people have their avatars set as a remote URL.

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Quote from: justusranvier on December 03, 2013, 01:01:12 PM

It looks like some avatar images are not being proxied.

They aren't supposed to be, but hey theymos! Great idea there for you!

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It looks like some avatar images are not being proxied.

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Does weserve.nl delete the logs of served images immediately?

This seems to both eliminate the ability to find IP info of scammers as well as provide a single entity for a state-run organization to target for easy access to user info. I'm not saying it's bad or worse, but is there a reason weserve.nl was chosen? (deleting logs immediately would be a good one).

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Quote from: Raoul Duke on November 27, 2013, 05:35:21 PM

Quote from: gweedo on November 27, 2013, 05:29:41 PM

Quote from: Raoul Duke on November 27, 2013, 11:39:26 AM

Quote from: whiskers75 on November 27, 2013, 11:35:45 AM

This was a bad change.
In regards to tracking pixels - if you don't think it's trustworthy, don't click it!

The thing is: YOU DON'T NEED TO CLICK THEM. Just opening the page is enough.

I can offer hosting and bandwidth for an image proxy. Get me the script and I'll install it on one of my servers.

I have a script if you want to use it, it is all in php and probably needs some space to hold some images, but also a mysql server and cron.

I try to put it on github tonight or some time after I test it.

As said: 10TB/month available.

I can even get a domain for it(already have a static IP).

Here if you want it https://github.com/italiano40/image-proxy

If anyone sees an error, or issue, do a pull-request, I tested it as much as I can.

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Quote from: theymos on December 02, 2013, 11:52:49 PM

Quote from: Maged on December 02, 2013, 10:55:08 PM

One thing you can do is whitelist the common image hosting sites that don't provide viewer IP information upon request of the uploader. If the domain is not imageshack, imgur, etc., then send it through the proxy.

What's the point of that, though? Such images are proxied fine.

This would at least somewhat allow animated gifs.

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Quote from: Maged on December 02, 2013, 10:55:08 PM

One thing you can do is whitelist the common image hosting sites that don't provide viewer IP information upon request of the uploader. If the domain is not imageshack, imgur, etc., then send it through the proxy.

What's the point of that, though? Such images are proxied fine.

Maged

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Theymos,

One thing you can do is whitelist the common image hosting sites that don't provide viewer IP information upon request of the uploader. If the domain is not imageshack, imgur, etc., then send it through the proxy.

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I don't see the pics from imageshack anymore: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/aggiornata-guida-con-foto-client-bitcoin-qt-portafoglio-sicuro-paper-wallet-103907

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