From 32565dc725928fafdad5c8eb06677f30548d6054 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Hemanth.HM" <hemanth.hm@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:11:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Support URLs

---
 package.json      |  6 ++++--
 src/node/index.js | 14 +++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e56d22f..8136701 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -20,11 +20,13 @@
     "browserify": "^13.1.0",
     "envify": "^3.4.1",
     "http-server": "^0.9.0",
-    "watchify": "^3.7.0",
-    "pako": "^1.0.3"
+    "pako": "^1.0.3",
+    "watchify": "^3.7.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "file-type": "^3.8.0",
+    "is-url": "^1.2.2",
+    "isomorphic-fetch": "^2.2.1",
     "jpeg-js": "^0.2.0",
     "level-js": "^2.2.4",
     "object-assign": "^4.1.0",
diff --git a/src/node/index.js b/src/node/index.js
index 0f6eed1..cc98988 100644
--- a/src/node/index.js
+++ b/src/node/index.js
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 const path = require('path')
+const fetch = require('isomorphic-fetch')
+const isURL = require('is-url')
 
 exports.defaultOptions = {
     workerPath: path.join(__dirname, 'worker.js'),
@@ -29,7 +31,17 @@ exports.sendPacket = function sendPacket(instance, packet){
 
 
 function loadImage(image, cb){
-    // TODO: support URLs
+    
+    if(isURL(image) {
+        fetch(image).then(function (resp) {
+            return resp.buffer();
+        }).then(function (buffer) {
+            return loadImage(buffer, cb);
+        }).catch(function (err) {
+            return console.error(err);
+        });
+    })
+
     if(typeof image === 'string'){
         fs.readFile(image, function(err, buffer){
             if (err) throw err;