ImgRed.com - Image Redirection

To avoid hot-linking an image, prepend http://imgred.com/ before the URL. To show a thumbnail of the image, prepend http://imgred.com/tn/ before the URL.

Details: When posting on message boards or blogs, often you want to show or link to an image on another website. Directly showing or linking to that image is called hot-linking. It's generally bad because it leeches bandwidth from the host site, and as a result many webmasters have their servers set up to prohibit hot-linking.

The typical work-around is to do the following:

• Save the image to your hard drive
• Navigate to a free image-hosting website
• Enter the path to the image on your hard drive
• Wait for it to upload
• Copy the new URL and paste it into your message-board or blog post

That's rather tedious. Well ImgRed.com lets you simply enter the original URL in your post as you normally would, but with http://imgred.com/ written before the URL. When this is viewed, the image will be copied once* to imgred.com, and from then on the image will always be served from imgred.com instead of the host site. Additionally, a thumbnail is automatically generated, which can be accessed by adding http://imgred.com/tn/ before the original URL.

ImgRed提供了一个便捷的服务，只要得到源图片的地址，就可以直接引用到你的Blog上。而你所需要作的，只是在图片地址前面加上“http://imgred.com/”。

另外，ImgRed还提供了缩略图输出，只要把“http://imgred.com/”修改成“http://imgred.com/tn/”即可。

ImgRed的工作原理也很简单，在第一次读取图片的时候，就会自动把图片存储到ImgRed服务器上。之后就无需再去源地址读取，而是直接读取ImgRed所存储的文件了。(Via WebLeOn's Blog）