How can I send an image on the web in an XMPP (Jabber) message?

Question

For the XMPP interface for the Stack Overflow chat, I am currently taking the HTML of the chat messages and converting to valid XML, and setting that as the html ch

Answer 1

Just an idea...

What about parsing the image URL's, downloading the images, putting them into a temp folder with filenames representative of the original URLs (the filename could be a hash of the original URL) and substituting the original URLs in the messages for these file URLs?

Another idea... having a local server that fetches the real URLs?