Re: [Edbrowse-dev] Images

[Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>]

Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net> writes:

> I'm guessing it sends the img url to some website, maybe with yourcredentials,
> perhaps as cookies, then the site posts it, some user solves it,
> and returns the letters to you, which you type in,

I don't know how it works.  I'm pretty sure it doesn't grab an
image URL.  Why?  There's too much variability.  A lot of sites probably
use the URL in conjunction with cookies or whatnot.  I suppose the
plugin could ship your cookies to webvism, but that's a security
minefield that no one really wants to enter.
My suspicion is that it extracts the images from the page somehow,
possibly using the DOM tree to find the image associated with the
current form.  Those are then sent as actual graphic files to the
service.  That would be the best and safest way to do it, I should
think.

-- Chris