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I want users to be able to add a photo to a page by giving its URL. I want to both display it and save the image on my server. Can I do this using AJAX, and ideally with Jquery?

I'm currently using the Jquery File Upload plugin to handle uploads from the user's computer, however I could not find a way of using it to handle upload by URL.

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  • Yes you can do this. AJAX the URL of the image up to your server-side script that downloads the image, and then add the image code on the client browser. Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 18:45
  • couldn't you add the photo to the page just by writing in an img tag with that URL as the src? -- just saw your edit, you want to save it to your server too. That would have to be done on the back-end. Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 18:47
  • I just edited the question to say that I want to save the image too. Otherwise displaying it by writing out the img tag would work. Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 18:49

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If it's just a URL, you can send the URL to the server and make it download the image, instead of sending the whole image in AJAX.

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What happens if it's a local url?

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