Sam Carleton wrote:
On 3/26/07, Issac Goldstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If the images are already on the server, and needed for the response
immediately, you'd need to do it inline, but you could still make life
easier on yourself (somewhat) by caching the reduced images to avoid
reprocessing.
I could give more specific advice if you could share a bit more about
what you're trying to accomplish in general.
Another alternative is to cause the image links to point to a directory,
and use
ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/script-to-generate-thumbnails.pl
Which CGI generates the image and dumps it to the browser as well as
storing it. Then, each subsequent image request comes from the static
file. If you need them to be cleaned up once in a while and
regenerated, just create a cron job with "find" to locate the "old"
thumbnails and delete them, which causes the 404 and regenerates the images.
Joe
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