Lack of interest image proxy with "seo" urls

[lifeofguenter]

It would be awesome if the built-in image proxy would support an option to generate "seo" friendly urls:

• maybe some seo impact (especially for image heavy forums)
• easier to share for users (this would definitely have a positive seo/traffic impact)
• most important: will make images cachable (if url ends with image-extension .jpg/.png/.etc) via cloudflare.

 

[Chromaniac]

you can use page rules to cache images on cloudflare. i believe it works very well. and from my experience, google has no issues caching proxied images.

 

[lifeofguenter]

you can use page rules to cache images on cloudflare

Yah sure, would still be better if it would be supported natively with a nicer NON proxy.php url

google has no issues caching proxied

not about caching but indexing

 

[Chromaniac]

right. i could be wrong but i think the way xenforo handle attachments especially images is to prevent hotlinking by external websites. same with proxied images. i imagine this is needed because of usergroup permissions?

 

[lifeofguenter]

i could be wrong

preventing hot-linking is only a feature, not a must. In my case I benefit a lot of hot-linking so I do not want to disable it. And it already works fine like this

i imagine this is needed because of usergroup permissions?

Good point. But thats for attachments, not image-proxy.

In any case, I am not asking to get rid of image proxy, I would like to have a nicer url, so instead of:

/proxy.php?image=http://long-url.com/long.image.jpg&hash=assasdadsadsads

/image/hash/filename-from-url.jpg

This can be done with the current way without having to change anything on permissions or hotlinking. But it would require changes to the router and the image-proxy link generation.