Re: Image Redirects on the Wayback Machine

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 09:20:25AM +1100, Kevin Koster wrote:
>I keep needing to open pages at the Wayback Machine in Links
>(graphical mode) because Dillo won't load images there. I know this
>is because a while ago they started using redirects on the image
>links in their archived pages, and the old Dillo FAQ says:
>
>"If Dillo requests an image and receives a response containing a
> redirection (i.e., pointing to a different URL), the redirection is
> not followed. These have a strong tendency to be advertisements."
>  https://dillo-browser.github.io/old/FAQ.html#q28
>
>However it's a real pain since most of the good stuff on the Web
>seems to have gone offline. ~/.dillo/domainrc was added to solve
>similar problems with over-active blocking of images at different
>domains (next part of that FAQ answer). Could some sort of allow
>rule for image redirects be added in that too? Or is there an
>existing work-around for the Wayback Machine images that I
>haven't figured out?

It is not implemented yet:

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/304#issuecomment-2486646504

See Cache_redirect() in src/cache.c if you want to take a look.

Best,
Rodrigo.
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