in reply to Printing inline images

to appear on the outside users machine without them having to edit their internet client to use a proxy server

If you are using Apache you could configure it as a proxy server using mod_proxy and your images would show up using plain http - no programming necessary, and no client-side configuration.

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Re: Re: Printing inline images
by satanklawz (Beadle) on Jul 03, 2003 at 02:11 UTC
    So, if mod_proxy is installed on the apache server, and I have the image tag <img src="http://10.50.1.1/someimage">, the client who have no routing possibilities to 10.255.255.255 will have the image displayed?

    Learn something new every day I guess :)
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      Not quite. Your image tag will still need to point to the 'visible' server, but the server will be able to decode the URL and proxy the request to the proper server.

      One way to do this is to use the ProxyPass directive provided by mod_proxy. Put something like the following in the conf file for the visible server:

      ProxyPass /10_50_1_1/ http://10.50.1.1/

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      Now an URL pointing to http://visibleserver/10_50_1_1/foo/bar would get proxied by the server to http://10.50.1.1/foo/bar. Of course you could use another string in place of 10_50_1_1 to make your URLs look nicer.

      If you need more control over how the URL gets rewritten, have a look at the mod_rewrite module, which will work in concert with the mod_proxy module.

      ps. if you do setup mod_proxy, make sure you do not set it up as an open proxy... Make sure you have 'ProxyRequests off' somewhere in your config file. The ProxyPass directive will still work regardless of this setting.

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