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Mathias

Founder of Img.vision service and interested in everything related to image hosting and video hosting.

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  • Uploading images from your iPhone or iPad

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    You can upload images from your iPhone or your iPad to your Img.vision account. Steps: Take your photos using your standard photo app Login to your dashboard using your browser. You can visit the homepage of Img.vision and go to login menu link or type in your browser the address dash.img.vision Click on the Upload…

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  • I see an error when viewing an image

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    You are trying to view an image but you get an error like so: this xml file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. the document tree is shown below. <error> <code>accessdenied</code> <message>access denied</message> <requestid>fd789fdsg45vcx12v5df894</requestid> <hostid> /df45dc145cv15df894fd89v45vc156+879e= </hostid> </error> This error indicates that the image is not accessible on Img.vision (anymore).…

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  • Dropbox upload warning

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    Users on certain plans can choose to upload files from their Dropbox drive. The benefits are: Warning when connecting Dropbox to Img.visionThis is perfectly safe. You’ll see this warning: And when you continue you’ll see: You safely accept this warning and connect your Dropbox account.

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  • Can I hotlink images?

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    Yes you can! 👍 It’s what Img.vision was built for, so no worries it’ll continue to work in the future.

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  • Quickly copying the the direct link to an image

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    You can quickly copy the the direct link to an image. Open the menu of an image, depending on the layout you have, the three dots to open the menu are located in the following places: Choose the first option of the menu: Copy direct link: The link is copied to your device clipboard. Check…

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  • How secure is my Img.vision password?

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    Your password is encrypted during registration with SHA-256 one-way encryption. We cannot decrypt your password en hence don’t know what password you used. How does the login system know your password is correct? We encrypt the text you enter as password and check if the result matches the stored encrypted password. We have rate limiting…

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  • How private are images I’ve marked as “Offline”?

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    Offline images cannot be viewed by anyone without adminstrative access to the data storage account at our data storage provider. Any visitors that have the link, and even yourself, even if you are logged into our control panel, will not be able to see the image. Notes

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  • How secure is the storage of my images?

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    Images are stored in a leading, global, cloud data storage provider. Disks are encrypted Data that is written to disks is encrypted by default with AES-256. This encryption does not prevent you or people you share the image with to see the image in their browser or on their phone. It does prevent the case…

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  • How secure is the control panel?

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    Our control panel uses end-to-end encryption. This means the entire path between your browser on your device is transferring data over an encrypted channel right up to our servers. The connection uses a valid non-expired dedicated certificate issued by a respectable certificate authority. Note: Requests towards our servers, also image requests, for insecure HTTP resources…

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  • Can Img.vision handle really popular images?

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    Yes, we can. We have partnered with two leading global content distribution network to distribute our hosted images across various edge locations across the world. The images are cached at these places and served to visitors closed than our origin servers are. The fact we employ an entire network of edge locations means the load…

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