I have a simple RSS news application built using JavaScript, that pulls in feeds through Google's feed API. I'm doing a proof of concept and caching the feed using localStorage though due to storage limitations, I only store the HTML and not the images.
When I load a feed from cached html, and the images are merely img
tags pointing to the source content - is this distinguishable from hot-linking an image? If so, is there another way I should go about this? Or - does this even matter?
Edit: To avoid any possible confusion, I am not attempting to hotlink content. I am trying to use syndicated content according to the terms of use (according to Google's feed API). I am caching the content to speed up the application, and only cache it for as long as is allowed according to each feed's policy (if set in the HTTP header). I am merely wondering if this is the appropriate way to handle this content, and if not, what would be an appropriate alternative.