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ASP.net resize image from external domain

Hi, i'm looking for a way to code a page in ASP.NET so that you can stick an image location in the querystring, for example

"blah.asx?image=http://www.google.com/images/logo.gif" and page will become the image - but resize it first if that makes sense

so if i created an image on a webpage, using the basic img tag, <img src="blah.asx?image=http://www.google.com/images/logo.gif"> It would show the image in the querystring, but resize the image on the fly, to a max proportion i set within the asx file keeping the aspect ratios). Can anyone point me in the right direction for doing this, or find me the code to do this

Thanks very much

SP!KE

sybe

Why not simply:

<img src="blah.asx?image=http://www.google.com/images/logo.gif" width="30" height="30">

then the browser will do the resizing, save you a lot of work.

spikehalliwell

ASKER

HUGE files not thumbnailed would cause a lot of bandwidth and slow user access to my pages by a lot

sybe

i don't know about dotnet, but plain asp can't resize images on the fly, you need a component for that. There are some available, but the good ones will cost you some money.

spikehalliwell

ASKER

i believe ASP.NET can handle images without componants - it can certainly thumbnail images - i'm just not sure of the code which is why i'm asking on here

spikehalliwell

ASKER

i'm fairly sure ASP.net can cope with image resizing - its one of the new features - it can certainly create thumbnails on the fly -though i think they might be from local files - i'm just not sure of the code- which is why i'm posting on here

sybe

Have you thought about copyright issues? You probably can't "steal" an image from another website and process it and offer it to your customers..

spikehalliwell

ASKER

google was an example - its a function on one of my sites to add a URL with their profile image on it - which means they must own the copyright of their image - and there is a disclaimer to that effect - so its not stealing

fritz_the_blank

Perhaps this:

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20030515.asp

You will just have to replace the path from something local to your remote path.

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fritz_the_blank

BTW, please be sure to finalize your question at:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20732287/Scrolling-layer-problems.html

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fritz_the_blank

And another sample:

http://authors.aspalliance.com/chrisg/default.asp?article=21

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spikehalliwell

ASKER

these are all helpful but don't really solve my origional question - how do i resize an image not hosted on my local domain??

fritz_the_blank

It seems to me that a place to start would be to try passing the external url as a parameter for the physical path to this method.....

public void GenerateThumbNail(string sPhysicalPath,string sOrgFileName,string sThumbNailFileName,ImageFormat oFormat)

spikehalliwell

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i don't want to go down this route until i'm sure it will work

fritz_the_blank

I see. So you are suggesting perhaps that I should test all of this and get back to you?

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spikehalliwell

ASKER

no that would be much to much work - it would just be easier if someone could say - yes you can definatly thumbnail images that aren't located on your domain

fritz_the_blank

I am guessing that you will have to get the image from the remote site, download it to a local drive on your server, and then produce the thumbnail

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spikehalliwell

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is that action possible in asp.net?

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spikehalliwell

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Thank you very much i'll take this issue as resolved - fritz_the_blank thank you again

SP!KE

fritz_the_blank

I am sorry, but I don't think that I helped very much here...

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