Feature #34462
Provide base mechanism for direct streaming of "media"
| Status: | New | Start date: | 2012-03-02 | |
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| Priority: | Could have | Due date: | ||
| Assigned To: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - |
Description
It would be useful to have the option to allow requesting a media (for current implementations consider an Image) directly per URI request.
I'd like to collect some ideas together how this could be achieved.
For a first draft I thought about providing both an AbstractController and an AbstractView that fetches the appropriate image and the view basically echo's that view after setting a Content-Type:image/jpeg (e.g.) header.
That Uri could be configured being for example
http://cdn.example.org/image/bfc4d56e-ec2f-4ac6-8571-b60d97f37cac/300x.jpg
would output the image scaled to 300px width.
While thinking through that; another approach would be to provide an own request handler.
Additionally of course a caching mechanism should be used in order not to recalculate the same image every time.
At a very later stage, a simple cache proxy could be used however in order to "protect" the FLOW3 engine for unnecessary subsequent requests.
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