Lutim images integration in timeline

[ldidry]

Lutim is a free software for image sharing. This patch displays
images from the official instance (https://lut.im) in the Twister
timeline.

[miguelfreitas]

please take a look at interface_common.js:462.
inline image displaying must obey getShowPreviewOpt() and getUseProxyOpt() options.

[ldidry]

There is a problem with the proxies:

• https://ssl-proxy.my-addr.org/myaddrproxy.php/ seems down (502 bad gateway)
• http://anonymouse.org/ doesn't support https unless you pay (http://anonymouse.org/errors/anon-www-notsupported-error.html?https) and lut.im is https only

What do I have to do ? Adding an exception for the case the user want to use anonymouse.org ? (I hope that ssl-proxy.my-addr.org will be up again someday)

I've got two other questions:

• it seems that no image at all are displayed in the twists list. While adding support for lut.im, maybe can I add support for other images ? Like in interface_common.js.
• if I want to really support lut.im, I have to add support for it in interface_common.js, don't I ?

Thank you for your answers… and for Twister of course !

[miguelfreitas]

The most important thing is not the proxy itself, but rather implementing the image inline preview as a feature which can be enabled/disabled. User must be able to choose not to leak the information about which posts he reads (by accessing some arbitrary server who logs his activity).

btw, yes: we have image support in twister-html, but the user has to explicitly enable this at the options page.

So, first point: check that regex in line 462 on how you may be able to enhance it to include lut.im detection. Then lut.im will also be enclosed by the same test in line 455 (ie getShowPreviewOpt).

You have a good point about https, I was not aware of the proxies limitation. One possible solution is to only display lut.im images if proxies are not used.