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imgflo / imgflo-server

HTTP image processing server based on imgflo
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Maybe support processing images in dataURLs #14

Closed jonnor closed 6 years ago

jonnor commented 9 years ago

Putting images in dataURLs is becoming more popular. Apparently google image search does this in some cases, and it is frequently used to hold small image/visual assets in HTML/CSS.

dataURL support was added to imgflo/GEGL recently. But it might be more sane to handle it by "downloading" the data and put it into a regular .png/jpg on disk, like we do with HTTP etc.

A potential problem here is the GET+queryparam based API. It seems URLs for HTTP implementations have a maximum length of some KB: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/812925/what-is-the-maximum-possible-length-of-a-query-string

jonnor commented 9 years ago

Semi-related: #25

jonnor commented 6 years ago

Out of scope