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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: thumbnails</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/thumbnails.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-07-21T18:18:15+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>moddims</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/21/moddims/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-07-21T18:18:15+00:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T18:18:15+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/21/moddims/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/moddims/"&gt;moddims&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Apache 2 module which exposes ImageMagick as a URL-driven service, allowing you to request an image from a whitelisted host server and resize, thumbnail or alter the quality of it.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://www.artzstudio.com/2009/06/web-performance-impact-on-revenue-velocity-09-highlights/"&gt;Dave Artz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apache"&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/imagemagick"&gt;imagemagick&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/images"&gt;images&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/moddims"&gt;moddims&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/resizing"&gt;resizing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/thumbnails"&gt;thumbnails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="apache"/><category term="imagemagick"/><category term="images"/><category term="moddims"/><category term="resizing"/><category term="thumbnails"/></entry><entry><title>sorl-thumbnail</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/27/thumbnail/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-11-27T19:17:30+00:00</published><updated>2007-11-27T19:17:30+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/27/thumbnail/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/sorl-thumbnail/"&gt;sorl-thumbnail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
This looks like a decent attempt at a generic Django thumbnailing service, but I’m always wary of code that allows URL hackers to create large numbers of files that will be cached to disk. UPDATE: My mistake, thumbnail creation can only be caused by template authors.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django"&gt;django&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pil"&gt;pil&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/thumbnails"&gt;thumbnails&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/urls"&gt;urls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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