You can't download this image

Post by gipp » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 8:18 PM UTC

netizen-936824 wrote: post #67

Tuna-Fish wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh no, it's still downloading the one it's displaying on screen. You can even see a spinny thing as the icon of the tab on Chrome. The format allows for showing images when they are partially downloaded, and also allows pushing data that doesn't actually change the image.

Okay? So we still seem to have an accurate representation of the image we want. Why can't I just download that and what's the point of the rest of the data. If we already are seeing the image, the rest of the data is pointless no?

Post by gipp » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 8:19 PM UTC

stiray wrote: post #51

causi wrote: post #28

When you usually try to download an image, your browser opens a connection to the server and sends a GET request asking for the image. I'm not a web designer, but that seems rather ass-backwards. I'm already looking at the image, therefore the image is already residing either in my cache or in my RAM. Why it is downloaded a second time instead of just being copied onto my drive?

I have problem understanding what problem is this solving? When the image is on my screen I can just screenshot it. This is a common problem, using something in insecure environment, thats why companies are going into such extents to encrypt movies on whole train from source to the display and even those are regularly dumped.

Post by numbsafari » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 8:27 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #84

Safari Mac, I dragged it out of the page and into a Finder window, and it saved.

Post by post-it » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 8:34 PM UTC

hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #41

shrx wrote: post #24

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Nevermind, looks like MobaXterm shell provides a non-standard curl implementation: $ which curl curl: aliased to _tob curl After installing curl with apt-get it works.

I hate it when people do that. You can wonder for hours why something obvious doesn't work as it should and in the end discover someone decided to implement something substandard, often for no good reason.

Post by jancsika » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 8:37 PM UTC

Hard_Space wrote: post #2

You really can't - the HN hug of death has killed it!