RE: [PHP-INST] Question about reading GIFs
| From: | Michel Côté | Date: | Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:00:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-INST] Question about reading GIFs | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.install |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Angus [mailto:kangus@acats.com]
> Sent: 12 août, 2003 15:54
> To: Michel Côté
> Subject: RE: [PHP-INST] Question about reading GIFs
>
> The patent covers the process creating a GIF using LZW encoding: A web
> site
> can take the binary data encoded as a GIF and render it to a 'stream'
as
> the
> data is being read from a file (or database) and NOT unencoded or
encoded.
> The money hungry lawyers were told that rendering the data was 'like'
> saving/creating a file as browsers can save the GIF. Since the lawyers
> could
> not go after everyone that owns a browser they decided to pick on
ISP's.
>
> Read only GIF? If your ISP allows web writable access to your images
you
> better move!
Not the GIF file itself but in my other server's config the PHP
function ImageCreateFromGif could open a GIF file but ImageGif couldn't
save one. That last part isn't a problem since I can use ImagePng...
Thanks anyway.
>
> FYI: It's not nice to post on a forum with a receipt request.
Yeah I know I forgot to turn them off...
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