So for my site stormxxboy.com I made a shoutbox in there but you can embed image but the thing is people can put ipgrabbers I made an “image proxy” just for my site so the site requests the img and then sends it to the user is this allowed or should I find another solution?

Proxies are proxies. The way you set it up allows for the script to proxy any URL from anywhere. Even though the purpose of the proxy is to just serve images privately, the code itself has no protections to actually enforce that. Whether this is actually a ToS violation is debatable. If you are goi…

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking about. You are welcome to host images elsewhere and show them on your site

Look I am making it so users send an img link → and then it puts mysite/imgproxy.php?url=theimglink So the site itself requests the image and then send it to the user <?php // Ensure URL is provided if (!isset($_GET['url'])) { http_response_code(400); exit('Missing image URL.'); } $url = …

It clearly states in section 6 of the terms of service Script Usage Terms Scripts on the site must be designed to produce web-based content, and not to use the server as an application server. Using the server to generate large volumes of email from a database is an example of activity that is not…

It doesnt provide proxy services it just uses a proxy on the site for the site so that would be allowed?

Reading what you’re trying to do, my money is on not, unless admin pops on and says otherwise

No, you can’t do that. Have your users upload the images to imager or a related service instead

They arent uploading the images to the the site or to the server it is just making it so the server requests and sends them to the users its so people cant get ip logged

[image] StormXXBoy: it is just making it so the server requests and sends them to the users its so people cant get ip logged Your website is acting as a proxy which is not allowed

If they were uploading the images that would be allowed, but you are only acting as a proxy, that is not allowed.

Alright I guess if it isn’t allowed I can use this https://images.weserv.nl/ but I’d still like to hear from like the admin maybe if it is allowed tough because it’s not being used for other people just in the site itself.

Am I allowed to have an img proxy?

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Meishin July 14, 2025, 3:45am 12

At the end of the day it’ll be blocked by this:

There’s no need to argue that “but people are also visiting it over a browser”, due to how the system works, you simply cannot embed your site into another.