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0 pointsTazeTSchnitzel3y ago0 comments

Even the i.imgur.com links will redirect when accessed outside an <img> tag. If they don't for you, it's probably due to caching.

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Joker_vD3y ago

Wait, what? How do they even distinguish those cases?

TazeTSchnitzelOP3y ago

The Accept header tells you whether the browser is expecting a web page or an image.

hexage18143y ago

In fact you can make the page to send you the damn image, and it supposed to be, if you use some extension to modify your user agent and lies to imgur your are using curl something.

stemlord3y ago

Do you know of such an extension? Tumblr and a few other sites do this too and I've been looking for a client side solution for years now

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account423y ago

IMO that along with the Referer header is a mistake or at least the browser should allow you to overwrite that.

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