I also thought it would be handy to get the most relavent image given a URL, much like what happens when you paste a link into a facebook post; attempting to find the "logo" on the page or the high-res apple icons.
Essentially the site was just one html page that had endless scrolling and loaded hundreds of images. CloudFlare declared the site as being under a "Layer 7 Attack" even though it wasn't.
(Schlüssel means "key" in German. Google Image Search it and you get pictures of keys. Search for "Schlussel", though, and you get that girl. So presumably it searched for the punycode, something like --schlussel-blah.)
EDIT 3: Wait. the IDN for "Schlüssel" is xn--schlssel-95a. If I Google that, I don't get pictures of Ms. Schlussel. It must be decoding it and stripping the accents? That said, searching for schlssel does yield pictures of her.
EDIT 4: café is --xn-caf-dma. Google Image Search "caf" won't find cafés. Nor will "--xn-caf-dma". So it must understand IDNs but strip or be accent-insensitive
Well, thing is hostnames are supposed to only contain letters, digits and hyphens, although other DNS names can contain underscores. So it shouldn't work. You should be able to have a TEXT record with an underscore, but really shouldn't be able to have an A or AAAA record.
In this case optimus_prime is a sub domain. The actual DNS entry is likely *.jpg.to so DNS does not have to know how to resolve the URI section with underscore.
Ah this one actually works. Thanks. I just wasted a good hour placing the nicks of every one in the irc channel I frequent into jpg.to. Hilarity ensued. Productivity diminished.
Any particular reason you need to proxy the data through your own server? Seems like a 302 to the original image url would be quite a lot easier and more scalable.
Review the copy on your blog page explaining the project. You have a sentence with "use have" in it, and one sentence begins "Bring," where I think you meant "Bing." =)
seems like a great idea! wondering if you could plug this into comments on facebook where you could have your own such images embedded into text, like custom emoticons (or make the like like an @mention where its a word and a link to an image at the same time). Great stuff!
is it ok to generate traffic aimed at it?
maybe lots of traffic. (probably not,
especially at first, but maybe, so
i thought it would be polite to ask.)
Since my main use case was ease of use when using chat applications (like Campfire), I wanted a super short domain. I was actually pretty surprised a four letter pronounceable domain was available.
An interesting spinoff would be memes. Something like http://mebe.co/goodnews/I_just_fixed_the_build.jpg and it generates this: http://i.imgur.com/UR8Gbzb.jpg
and yes memes are trite/overdone/whatever, but there's a lot of people out there that use them.