Re: [Ids-devel] External image cache feature

[Scott S. <ss...@sc...>]

I wonder what it would take to add a function to compute where to get
the images from.  IE:  if it can not ping the web server and the images
then it uses the local image store.  

I would think that using rsync would be a better tool but I'm not a
coder.  

As for someone using the feature, I could see how it could help me.  One
feature I have been looking for is the ability to lock down directories
with username and passwords so that if I were to photograph an event I
could lock it down.  Right now I use gallery for that.  

A few thoughts.

-Scott

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 19:20, Curtis Bray wrote:
> Hi All -
> 
>   Well it still appears to be very quiet out there!  Has anyone heard from Ashley lately?  I'd love to see that CVS repository online again...  I've just posted by first album with IDS and I've been very impressed with the software so far.
> 
>   However, I am toying with adding an enhancement that would help me out with my setup quite a bit.  I'm running the software on a Linux box connected to my DSL line.  The processor speed is sufficient, but with throughput of only 128KB upstream my pictures take some time to load for other broadband users.  Here is what I'm thinking of doing:
> 
> 1.  Still create the image cache on the local system, but periodically upload the cache to a remote web server (one with some actual bandwidth for downloads!).
> 2.  When an image has been uploaded to the remote cache, the IDS system will refer the browser to the remote URL for that particular image.
> 3.  If the local cache of an image changes then have IDS refer the browser back to my local system until that change gets upload in the next remote synchronization.
> 4.  I'm thinking of using Net::FTP to post the image cache to my ISP's web server.  A cronjob could run nightly or hourly or whatever to keep the remote cache in sync.
> 
>    Thoughts?  Does anyone else have a use for this type of feature?  
> 
>        Curtis Bray
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