diff --git a/modules/api/api.py b/modules/api/api.py
index fb2c2ce9af6..4abfd9bd55f 100644
--- a/modules/api/api.py
+++ b/modules/api/api.py
@@ -57,6 +57,15 @@ def setUpscalers(req: dict):
 
 
 def decode_base64_to_image(encoding):
+    if encoding.startswith("http://") or encoding.startswith("https://"):
+        import requests
+        response = requests.get(encoding, timeout=30, headers={'user-agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36'})
+        try:
+            image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
+            return image
+        except Exception as e:
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail="Invalid image url") from e
+
     if encoding.startswith("data:image/"):
         encoding = encoding.split(";")[1].split(",")[1]
     try: