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:lock: an http proxy to route images through SSL

14 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 0 stories, 14 comments · first 2011-08-14 · latest 2021-11-08

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  1. https://github.com/atmos/camo I think this is pretty well known? It's a good idea too for GitHub to protect it's users.
  2. …It removes any "dangerous" code like JS from the file before serving it from a GitHub CDN. 1. https://github.com/atmos/camo
    comment by NiekvdMaas · 2020-12-08 · in CSS in GitHub Readmes
  3. They just proxy it on the fly with camo: https://github.com/atmos/camo
    comment by angristan · 2020-05-10 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
  4. …do basically anything?), so it's not a perfect solution for everyone, but it might work here. [1]: https://github.com/atmos/camo
  5. …headers, so it will just pass through since we use Etags and Cache-Control: no-cache. [1] https://github.com/atmos/camo
  6. Yeah Github's proxy [1] respects Cache-Control headers, so it will just pass through. [1] https://github.com/atmos/camo
  7. …as PNGs usually are. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_as_an_I... [2]: https://github.com/atmos/camo/blob/master/server.coffee#L43 [3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/ [4]: http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/
    comment by espadrine · 2015-11-25 · in Animated SVG vs. GIF
  8. …not work with SSL, either inform your users about it, or use an SSL proxy like GitHub's [0]. 0: https://github.com/atmos/camo
    comment by _jomo · 2015-09-30 · in HTTPS support coming to Blogspot
  9. We proxy all external URL's through: https://github.com/atmos/camo
    comment by keithpitt · 2015-05-08 · in Animated Gifs in Your Log Output
  10. …https://github.com/blog/743-sidejack-prevention-phase-3-ssl-... Here's the code behind it: https://github.com/atmos/camo
  11. FYI, Camo might be useful for this: https://github.com/atmos/camo There's also a Go (golang) port: https://github.com/cactus/go-camo I'm currently using go-camo in my own feed reader and have experienced some flakiness (images fail to load…
    comment by grosskur · 2013-06-06 · in Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader
  12. …thinking "What I need is some kind of SSL proxy for user generated images"... Node based SSL proxy: https://github.com/atmos/camo And I whipped one up in PHP for some old PHP site that I worked on if anyone wants to see that. I shoved that…
  13. …that doesn't originate from an SSL site but the user is viewing my site over SSL. Similar to this https://github.com/atmos/camo , except mine isn't written in node.js Even then, users complained of broken images when they were logged in…
  14. Ah right: https://github.com/atmos/camo