From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2602:47:2243:ea00:12bf:48ff:fe7c:5584]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 421C477AF9 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:30:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Brannon To: Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com References: <20140327153722.eklhad@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:29:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20140327153722.eklhad@comcast.net> (Karl Dahlke's message of "Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:37:22 +0000") Message-ID: <87zjj5tqtx.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] Images X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Edbrowse Development List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:30:15 -0000 Karl Dahlke 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