I see you are making good use of it in the daily discussion :)

deepologic

Probably shortly after there’s a gh issue. Proxying might be a lift but otherwise it’s a mime type check

niceee. when can we do this for video? 👀

testing this with a relevant meme in light of today's events

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/uXwPDUw2EsmUvJloeLzui2MgwJY5BQFsWMdNlhyv5TY/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9wYnMudHdpbWcuY29tL21lZGlhL0Z5VEh2bV9Yc0FNLW5Ebj9mb3JtYXQ9anBnJm5hbWU9bWVkaXVt

birdeye21

> How do you make sure an .jpg url actually is an image like it says it is?

We don't. If the website responds with "image" in it's `Content-type` header to our `HEAD` request, we proxy it. If not, it will be displayed as a URL on which a user can click.

If it turns out to not be an image during rendering, the image won't be rendered but I would blame the website then since they gave us wrong information.

The assumption is that this will work in 99% of the cases and when we find edge cases, we can think about other solutions. 

> How do you do this? Just call the website from backend?

Yeah, you can kind of think of us as serving as a VPN for images on the site.

> How do you make sure an .jpg url actually is an image like it says it is?

We send an http `HEAD` request to the url which specifies the type.

> We proxy all images so that your ip isn't leaked to the image host.

Oh interesting, didn't know this was possible. How do you do this? Just call the website from backend? How do you make sure an .jpg url actually is an image like it says it is?

zuspotirko

Love seeing the privacy-centric changes like the image proxy. Nice!!

WeAreAllSatoshi

OneOneSeven

woohoo! congratulations on the release 🔥🔥🔥🔥

jowo

narc

! They did image link detection work a couple month ago and was really patient waiting for us to ship it. 

 did a lot of the follow through, image proxy work, and the longest cowboy hat change.

meta

1. When you stick an image link in a text field, we detect it and render it as image (without you having to provide markup):
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/nzpWF554VYDdl37N6rj2Y7a8fT0Z0izHov1QCgVTClA/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdGF0aWMwLmdhbWVyYW50aW1hZ2VzLmNvbS93b3JkcHJlc3Mvd3AtY29udGVudC91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjAvMDkvY2luZGVyZWxsYS1mYWlyeS1nb2Rtb3RoZXIuanBnP3E9NTAmZml0PWNvbnRhaW4mdz0xMTQwJmg9JmRwcj0xLjU
2. We proxy all images so that your ip isn't leaked to the image host.
3. When you use a link to an image in a 'link' post, it becomes an image post and the image is rendered on the post's page.
4. Your longest cowboy hat streak is displayed on your profile.

Special thanks to @jowo! They did image link detection work a couple month ago and was really patient waiting for us to ship it. @ekzyis did a lot of the follow through, image proxy work, and the longest cowboy hat change.
