Pasting https images takes long

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Environment

big-agi.com (production website)

Description

As reported on Discord, "when pasting a url to image like asdf.com/sdf.png it takes for ever to load the pic https://i.imgur.com/JHGfTzA.png"

Device and browser

web

Screenshots and more

Willingness to Contribute

• 🙋‍♂️ Yes, I would like to contribute a fix.

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Confirmed; the solution would be to try for a non-html client-side fetch (assuming no CORS), or possibly server-side fetch accepting non-HTML, with fallback to the trusted code path of page/object download.