Question about the img plugin

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@@ -16,3 +16,7 @@ It would be handy if the `class` and `id` tags were passed through to the surrou
 I have created a patch that allows the image to be sharpened when resampled.
 There is also an additional option to interlace the image using plane for
 progressive display. --[[kjs]]
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+Is it possible to give an external image URL, must the image be local? One use case would be displaying *badges*, like [[the number of stars|https://img.shields.io/github/stars/joeyh/ikiwiki.svg]] of a [[github project|http://github.com/joeyh/ikiwiki]], but ``\[[!img https://img.shields.io/github/stars/joeyh/ikiwiki.svg]]`` does not work: [[!img https://img.shields.io/github/stars/joeyh/ikiwiki.svg]].