Re: [NTG-context] remote images

Hi Hraban,

fetching images per URI was supported (and is also documented in the wiki), but with LMTX 2022.09.11 and one of

\externalfigure[http://tug.org/images/logobw.jpg] or \externalfigure[https://picsum.photos/300/200]

I only get the usual grey box. No error message.

Neither of those links are valid images themselves, they are both redirects. The following works though: \starttext \externalfigure[https://tug.org/images/logobw.jpg] \stoptext I can't seem to get the second one to work since its redirected URL is a bit odd.

Do I need any setup, was this discarded in LMTX, or what’s wrong?

I have no idea if ConTeXt would ever follow redirects before, but I agree that it would be a useful feature. Thanks, -- Max