Bandwidth leeching reduction tip.

[James Deuce]

Web site ImgRed lets you quickly embed an image from another web site and embed it elsewhere without leeching bandwidth from the source.

Just grab the URL of the image and append it to <tt>http://imgred.com/</tt>.

The site copies the image to their server the first time it's requested, then serves it up permanently.

It can do thumbnails too.

Change the URL prefix to: http://imgred.com/tn/

[xwhatsit]

We can do that too on KB, right? Although that's only useful for when you want the image on KB.

Quite a cool idea. Should use it in some of my scripts to prevent the 1:1000 scale Slashdotting I sometimes cause.

[James Deuce]

I've got stuff in my KB gallery I want to share with people. This will stop the hot linking to stuff I store on KB. One off hit for the first upload and that's it.

[xwhatsit]

I've got stuff in my KB gallery I want to share with people. This will stop the hot linking to stuff I store on KB. One off hit for the first upload and that's it.



That wouldn't work though as you need a login to access images on this site. I think.

[James Deuce]

For images in the posts, that's correct, but the gallery can be hot linked.

I've done it, darn it, stop arguing!

[xwhatsit]

For images in the posts, that's correct, but the gallery can be hot linked.

I've done it, darn it, stop arguing!



Lol! OK haha.

Useful tool, though. And just appending the URL to http://imgred.com means it's ripe for use in automated scripts and command-line stuff.

[James Deuce]

Test

http://imgred.com/tn/http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/photopost/data/514/Oggy_Knob.JPG

http://imgred.com/http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/photopost/data/514/Oggy_Knob.JPG

[James Deuce]

Yes it does. It only leaches when it uploads ONCE to imgred. From that point on the image is hosted on imgred.

It doesn't stop you if you aren't polite enough to use a free intermediary.

I'm referring of course to voluntarily stopping yourself from being lazy and hotlinking back to KB in this instance.