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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

On 2020-03-13 14:58, Nicholas Roy wrote:
> This is likely to be something InCommon does in the future, as well, since 
> we already use a very nice CDN for our MDQ service. Just makes sense to 
> fetch everyone’s logos periodically, cache them in S3 and make the logo 
> URLs point at our CDN fronting S3.
> 

seamlessaccess.org runs software that does this - we're still playing around 
a bit with
what the best cut-off size is (there are logos that are simply too large to 
fetch in
practice).

        Cheers Leif

> Nick
> 
> On 13 Mar 2020, at 3:28, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> 
>> Op 13-03-2020 om 10:23 schreef Guy Halse:
>>> I have considered an alternative, which I may implement in future --
>>> rather than converting them to data: URLS, we could cache them and make
>>> them available via https:// from our own CDN (thus replacing the original
>>> URL with a new https:// one).
>>
>> This is what we do, FWIW. All our logos come from a single domain, which
>> makes it also much faster to fetch many of them in one go for browsers.
>>
>>
>> Thijs

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