website address/image pulling

[mikeyd]

We have a program that pulls up hundreds of websites from different servers and then is rendered.

The problem we have is that there is one website that has a slow loading image. This causes our program to fail on it because we have a one minute time out.
The time out can not be changed and the website owner will not correct his image file to load faster.

Is there a way to make the computer pulling the image to ignore the website address for the image and pull the image file from a cache version or static version on the local disk.
I was thinking of using the /etc/hosts file but I am not sure it can do what we want, for example

if the link is

http://www.thesitename/image1.gif

Can we have the computer pull up the image from

C:\somedirectory\image1.gif

Any ideas? thanks in advance for any help that can be offered.

 

[strongm]

>Is there a way to make the computer pulling the image to ignore the website address for the image and pull the image file from a cache version or static version on the local disk.

When you download the HTML from the original webserver can you not replace the src property for the relevant image?