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From: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Subject: Re: remote images
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 08:16:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <990f7b75-3c71-86a1-c186-7b4ec12a2de8@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2008aafef584d215caf03860d12529f0a9686bf.camel@telus.net>

Am 04.10.22 um 07:35 schrieb Max Chernoff:
> Hi Hraban,
> 
>> fetching images per URI was supported (and is also documented in the
>> wiki), but with LMTX 2022.09.11 and one of
>>
>> \externalfigure[http://tug.org/images/logobw.jpg]
>> or
>> \externalfigure[https://picsum.photos/300/200]
>>
>> I only get the usual grey box. No error message.
> 
> Neither of those links are valid images themselves, they are both
> redirects. The following works though:
> 
>     \starttext
>         \externalfigure[https://tug.org/images/logobw.jpg]
>     \stoptext

Oops, should have checked better. Thank you!

But yes, following redirects or at least an error message would be nice.

Hraban
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-03 10:28 Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-10-04  5:35 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-10-04  6:16   ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context [this message]

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