Will this work for all browsers? I've heard that some older ones don't
handle redirects very well.
Blair
On 5/18/07, David Whiterod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> One of the things that I haven't liked when users create dmHTML
> objects is the hard-coding of image URLs within the body.
>
> Others may have developed workarounds, but I was looking at Ben
> Nadel's blog the other day and he was taking about a simple method to
> log file downloads in CF [1]. I thought the method he described would
> be a good way to 'solve' the hard-coding issue. To this end, I've have
> created a proxy.cfm template (this can go in your webroot folder) and
> an example dmImage inserthtml snippet [2]. (These files have been
> created for, and testing, on FarCry 4 but they wouldn't need too much
> change to work with a FarCry 3 setup).
>
> Firstly the inserthtml. It's pretty basic as it just replaces the
> img's src with a call to proxy.cfm?objectid=<the image's UUID> instead
> of the image's URL path. Yyou can also supply the (optional) imagesize
> param. ie proxy.cfm?objectid=<the image's UUID>&imagesize=<thumb,
> optimised or original>)
> ie:
>
> <!--- @@displayname: Link (via proxy) --->
> <cfoutput><img alt='#stObj.alt#' title='#stObj.alt#'
> src="#application.url.webroot#/proxy.cfm?objectid=#stObj.objectid#" /
> ></cfoutput>
>
> Secondly, the proxy.cfm templateiso only marginally more complex. It
> just takes the objected and (optional) imagesize (via the URL), gets
> the FarCry object and cflocations to the current image URL. This
> allows users to update the physical image (and location and filename)
> associated with a FarCry dmImage object and the links within the
> dmHTML bodys do not need to be changed.
>
> The good thing about using the cflocation method is that the image
> will also shows up in the rich text editor when users are editing the
> dmHTML objects!
>
> (Although this does need to do a database lookup it you turn on FarCry
> 4's objectbroker for the image type this should cut down the amount of
> db traffic.)
>
> The code for proxy.cfm looks like:
>
> <cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="true" />
>
> <cfparam name="URL.objectid" type="string" default="" />
> <cfparam name="URL.ImageSize" type="string" default="optimised" />
>
> <cfif len(trim(URL.objectid))>
> <cfset oImage = createObject("component",
> "#application.types.dmImage.typePath#")>
> <cfset imagePath = oImage.getURLImagePath(URL.objectid,
> URL.ImageSize) />
>
> <cfif len(trim(imagePath))>
> <cflocation url="#imagePath#" addtoken="false" />
> <cfelse>
> <cfoutput>image not found</cfoutput>
> <!--- trace or report this error --->
> </cfif>
>
> <cfelse>
> <cfoutput>Must supply object id</cfoutput>
> <!--- trace or report this error --->
> </cfif>
>
> In summary, this looks like a good solution to the problem.
>
> Questions/comments/suggestions?
>
> (I've tested this on Windows/IIS but I don't see issues with other
> setups)
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
> [1] http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:706.view
> [2]
> http://docs.farcrycms.org:8080/confluence/display/FCDEV30/Insert+HTML+Templates
>
>
> >
>
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