Posted by cbmeeks on 06/18/07 18:22

I have a photo sharing site that takes a photo once it is uploaded and
copies it to a NON browsable location so that it can not be browsed
directly.

Then, when you want to view it, I load it in PHP and send down the
custom header. That way, I can control security, bandwidth, etc.

Works great. However, it's very demanding and it simply can't serve
the data as quickly as a static image in a browsable location.

So my question is, is there any way the file can be static (as in, not
dynamically created with a custom header) and still have all of my
custom security and bandwidth code?

Flickr allows you to make a file private. Yet, if you happen to find
out the URL, anyone can browse it! I mean, it would be impossible to
guess the URL but if it ever got out then you couldn't prevent people
from looking unless you deleted and re-uploaded.

I don't really want to go that route.

Thanks
cbmeeks

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