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ITEA3-Measure / MeasurePlatform

The Measure Platform is a web application which allows to collect, compute, store, and visualize measurements by execution of software measures (they may be defined in SMM - Structured Metrics Metamodel)
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Create a Project image field is text #6

Open teodor-stoenescu opened 7 years ago

teodor-stoenescu commented 7 years ago

As seen below, the project image field is a text field. It would make more sense for it to be a file field. This way the user can upload his own project image file. scr2

aabherve commented 7 years ago

Currently, an URL of an externaly hosted image is required. We could implement au upload service for user images.

teodor-stoenescu commented 7 years ago

I would argue that hotlinking is really unsafe and unethical. On the one hand you are using someone else's bandwidth. While this may not be a problem today, it could lead to other unexpected behaviours, like the image not being accessible in certain network configurations (such as accessing the platform via VPN). On the other hand this leaks information outside the platform, like who has access to certain projects. Last but not least, hotlinking opens a door for third parties to potentially deliver XSS exploits.