RedSquirrel87
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4 years ago Original comment by Red Squirrel (Bitbucket: Red_Squirrel, GitHub: RedSquirrel87).
Yeah, that would be the ideal solution for all, I agree. Unfortunately weserv has a very critical problem in our case, many websites (or better, almost all) require to send a specific http header when requesting the images and weserv does not support this. You can only pass the direct URL to weserv and some parameters for images manipulation, but without the http headers they can’t access the image at all (even passing the direct URL) and you get an error. I already explained the thing in another issue ( https://bitbucket.org/Red_Squirrel/manga-downloader/issues/117/pages-preview ) if you want to know more about it
Original report by Anonymous.
Hello! Since the start of this goddamn Covid pandemic, the severs of basically every site of the world have been suffering for increased workloads. The biggest sites somehow have their own ways of dealing with it, but the smaller sites just go down a lot of times every week. For example, all the online readers created with Foolslide, My Manga Reader CMS and Wordpress Madara are actually rather small, since they belong to one or two scanlation groups at most. While using Manga Downloader on them, I noticed very slow downloads and sometimes they even went down during the process. So, what I’m saying is, won’t you lend them a hand by using some CDN service? Another downloader, whose name I won’t say because I don’t want to advertise it, is using this: https://images.weserv.nl/. It’s something enabled by default for small sites like Jaimini’s Box or Fallen Angels, but can switched off. For some sites, it doesn’t work, but they’re very few. Since Manga Downloader uses generic frameworks, what about enabling it only for some of them? Foolslide and Wordpress Madara would be the obvious choice, since they’re the most used between small groups. Also, that site can downsize the images too, but you’d only need it as a CDN I guess, so the images would be 1:1 the original, but they’d be taken from there instead. If you know other services, that’s good too. I’m just saying that it’d probably help both the readers and the owners of those sites if you use some CDN service.