<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">But if that is the process, then anyone can edit an image on the desktop and while it is on the display then take device with instagram app and take the photo that’s on the display and then you get around the restriction built into Instagram. Simple isn’t it. BTW I do not use Instagram or WhatsApp either.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Sat, Jul 6, 2019, at 12:51, Matt Graham wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div style="font-family:Arial;">On 2019-07-06 12:14, Harold Hartley wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:01 PM Matt Graham wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>>> On 2019-07-06 11:45, Michael wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>>> how about uploading pictures [to Instagram] from your computer?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> The developers of Instagram don't want you to do that. The original<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> idea was that all pictures uploaded to Instagram would be taken <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> directly<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> from your phone, via their Instagram android/iphone applications, so <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> no<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> image editing would take place.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> What about when iOS 13 comes out will have photo editing. How is<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Instagram going to control that[?]<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">The last time I looked, in order to upload a photo to Instagram, you <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">had to do it through their phone application. The actual procedure used <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">is (probably) not complicated: Instagram phone application does <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">something like "POST /login user=username password=password" to the <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">server, server replies with a session cookie. Phone application opens <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">the camera, acquires an image, post-processes the image, then does <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">another POST containing that image with that session cookie and <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">(probably) a secret. Server checks cookie, image, and secret, if they <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">all check out, image is uploaded and then available on Instagram's <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">servers. This is probably not exactly how it works, but it's probably <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">close. An application that isn't Instagram would not have the session <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">cookie or the secret, making it impossible for that application to <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">upload things.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">IIRC, the phone application doesn't allow you to just grab a photo out <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">of the filesystem and upload it. I also think you can pay them money to <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">get an API key to allow something you've custom-built to upload images, <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">but ICBW as we didn't need that capability.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">All info is from banging on an Instagram microservice-type thing for <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">work a while back. They had people with Instagram accounts, and they <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">wanted an easy way to retrieve those people's images and display them. <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I had to create an Instagram account for testing... NOPEd that .apk <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">right off the work phone ASAP.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">-- <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">There is no Darkness in Eternity<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">But only Light too dim for us to see.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div id="sig4468849"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature"> Harold Hartley<br></div><div class="signature"> 17632 N. 5th place<br></div><div class="signature"> Phoenix, AZ 85022<br></div><div class="signature"> wheelie207@ownmail.net<br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>