Re: Images on CPAN: missing again (update)

Just a guess:

Try to embed images with a relative path to your distribution instead of http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl/images/a_simple.jpg

Cheers Rolf
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Je suis Charlie!}

Interestingly there seems to be a trend to foreign links to keep the distribution small.

probably a better strategy would be to mirror the images at upload time (?)

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Re^2: Images on CPAN: missing again (update) by afoken (Chancellor) on May 01, 2017 at 10:57 UTC
data-URLs might also work. They are directly embedded in the document, so they should not break. Some ancient browsers (Internet Explorer) can't handle them, but most browsers can. A little disadvantage is that data URLs use base64, so they inflate the image by one third. One should optimize the images for size before converting them to base64. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^3: Images on CPAN: missing again by LanX (Saint) on May 01, 2017 at 11:29 UTC
Yes i found discussions pointing to them. I think the main concern is to keep CPAN small. Not sure if there is a quota limiting uploads. For instance when running CPAN::Mini I wouldn't be too happy to have my disk bloated with image files of an obscure module. OTOH Mini allows setting filters. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply]


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