Re: Bug #1545: ImageCreateFromGIF does not support URLs

> Documentation currently states that ImageCreateFromGIF will load an image from either a file > name or a URL. > > a) there is no current way to differentiate between a relative URL > ("/images/blah.gif") and file names ("/home/httpd/images/blah.gif"). How is /images/blah.gif a relative URL? URL's start with HTTP:// or FTP:// > b) the function does not allow remote images to be loaded. > ("http://www.otherserver.com/otherblah.gif"). Sure it does > c) the function does not allow images to be loaded from virtual directories in Apache. For > instance, if the following is in httpd.conf: > <PRE> > ProxyPass /mirror/ http://www.otherserver.com/ > </PRE> > and viewing http://www.thisserver.com/mirror/otherblah.gif > works, using > <PRE> > ImageCreateFromGIF("/mirror/otherblah.gif"); > </PRE> > and > <PRE> > > ImageCreateFromGIF("http://www.thisserver.com/mirror/otherblah.gif"); > </PRE> > both do not work. > > Either the documentation needs changed, or (preferably) the function needs added functionality. This works as well. -Rasmus