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christiangenco / dbinbox

an inbox for your Dropbox
dbinbox.com
MIT License
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Suggestion: support upload from a public link #48

Open mouscaillot opened 11 years ago

mouscaillot commented 11 years ago

I wonder if it could be possible to upload an image from a public link instead of using a local file ? Per example « $ dbinbox USERNAME https://d339l1rkauam1y.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/logotype1.png » will copy the linked image to the USERNAME’s dropbox. This improvement could be cool !

christiangenco commented 11 years ago

Oh hey, that's totally possible.

In these cases I've found myself just sending the link as a text file (which I believe the above line of code will do), then I can download the URL when I'm at my computer and even include a small note about it.

Do you think that would cover your use case?

mouscaillot commented 11 years ago

Yes it works fine but the attached link is not consider as an image so I am not the file’s owner.

In my case I want to share images between Dropboxs and when the friend’s public links will expired/deleted it will be just useless links in text files.

christiangenco commented 11 years ago

Ahh, that makes sense. I'll add it to my todo list!