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Open sanokii opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

Sharing image links from google images directly to new status feed doesnt seem to work properly.

sanokii avatar Jan 20 '20 19:01 sanokii

What was the link you were trying to share?

A link to something like images.app.goo.gl won't work because that's not a link to an image, just to a page that contains an image.

If the url ends with .jpg, .png, .webp, etc then there's a good chance it's actually an image.

But even then there's a decent chance that either one of two things is happening:

1. Hotlinking / CORS Protection

Basically, the website hosting the image has decided that they don't want their image to be able to be embedded into sites other than their own.

2. Mixed Content Blocking

A lot modern browsers explicitly block content that's served over http from loading on a page that's served over https.

Neither of those are something that AniList has control over, though.

Generally, re-hosting the image on a service such as imgur is what most users end up doing if the site they're trying to share from doesn't work because of one of the above reasons.

Kazakuri avatar Jan 20 '20 19:01 Kazakuri