benwbrum / fromthepage

FromThePage is a wiki-like application for crowdsourcing transcription of handwritten documents.
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Internet Archive images not appearing in OSD #4408

Closed benwbrum closed 1 week ago

benwbrum commented 2 weeks ago

Due to cyberattacks, the Internet Archive has limited service availability. As a result, the OpenLibrary Download API works, but the IIIF API does not. The effect on FromThePage is that images are not appearing in the Open Seadragon viewer.

If we switch the OSD viewer over to use the Download API request for full images, this fails because the Download API does not have the proper CORS headers. As a result, we need to download images on request and serve them locally for users to be able to see IA-hosted images.