On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Bill Moseley wrote:

> At 05:11 PM 3/15/2002 +0300, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Marius Kjeldahl wrote:
> >
> >> I guess these all suffer from the fact that the parameters have to be 
> >> specified in httpd.conf, which makes it impossible to pass a url to 
> >> fetch from in a parameter, right?
> >
> >So mod_rewite with mod_proxy or mod_accel:
> >
> >RewriteRule   /proxy_url=http://(.+)$    http://$1   [L,P]
> >
> >Note that 'proxy?url=' is changed to 'proxy_url='.
> 
> Any concern about being an open proxy there?  I'd want to only proxy the
> sites I'm working with.  
> 
> I'd rather cache the images locally, just in case you are working with a
> slow site or if they do something silly like check referer on requests.

My prefrence is using static parameters in httpd.conf:

AccelPass  /mercant1/    http://mercant1/umages/
AccelPass  /mercant2/    http://mercant2/umages/
...
AccelPass  /mercant3/    http://mercant3/umages/

And of course proxied images can be cached.

Igor Sysoev

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