On 05/14/2014 01:23 PM, Barnes, Hugh wrote:
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> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stuart Yeates
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2014 1:04 p.m.
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] statistics for image sharing sites?
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>> My secondary question is whether any httpd gurus have recipes for redirecting by agent string from low quality images to high quality. So when AGENT =  "Pinterest/0.1 +http://pinterest.com/" and the URL matches a pattern redirect to a different pattern. For example:
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>> http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/etexts/MakOldT/MakOldTP022a%28w100%29.jpg
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>> to
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>> http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/etexts/MakOldT/MakOldTP022a.jpg
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> This sounds totally doable, but what are you trying to achieve?
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> To my mind, it has unintended consequences and chaos writ all over it.

My naive thought was to make the images that appear in pinterest as 
high-quality as possible, rather than the thumbnails that we often use 
on search pages, etc.

cheers
stuart