guidoism
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Over the years I've noticed many posts with missing images. A lot of people use free services to host their images and those websites go out of business or delete images after a certain amount of time. But VAF is an amazing resource and it's a shame for the data to disappear.
I would like to propose that we (or I) archive the current images to safeguard against future loss. Then in case those images are gone we (with Doug's help) could do some sort of url replacement to the new location. Honestly, I think all he would need to do is put a proxy in front of his website that does string replacement on the HTTP response for broken image urls.
I am considering just spidering (slowly and non-invasively) the site to get the list of images, but before I do this I would like some feedback, especially if there are easier ways to get the list of images - For example from the VAF website database directly.
Thoughts?
I would like to propose that we (or I) archive the current images to safeguard against future loss. Then in case those images are gone we (with Doug's help) could do some sort of url replacement to the new location. Honestly, I think all he would need to do is put a proxy in front of his website that does string replacement on the HTTP response for broken image urls.
I am considering just spidering (slowly and non-invasively) the site to get the list of images, but before I do this I would like some feedback, especially if there are easier ways to get the list of images - For example from the VAF website database directly.
Thoughts?
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