Loading image from URL with PIL

[rgb122 at my-deja.com]

Is it possible to load an image (GIF or JPEG)
straight from a URL without saving it to a file
first. I tried this:

u = urllib.urlopen
("http://localhost/cache/test.jpg")
data = u.read()
s = array.array("b", data).tostring()

But then how can I get the dimensions of the
image to pass to the fromstring function?

i = Image.fromstring("RGB", (???, ???), s)

Also, how can I convert a GIF to a JPEG using PIL?

Thanks,
Rob


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