Re: Storage of Images (use in web pages)

If security for the images are an issue then it is probably more effective to point the security at the page and its links rather than the image itself. If it is a page serving up secure badge ID photos, for instance, probably non-eligible people should be kept from accessing the page itself.

On 3/1/2015 7:57 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:

For web sites, images in IFS directories and opened up publicly via Apache for a web site are fine if part of the site itself.

Ex URL: http://1.1.1.1/images/test.gif
Could point to IFS folder /www/apachedft/htdocs/images/test.gif

You need to use CGI or some other application driven method to return files if they are secure documents such as those part of a document management system or secure file access system.

For public images pointers are relative paths to a website folder. For secure documents pointers are stored in the database.

Blobs are a pain to manage and probably for super-secure apps only. Your DB will also swell if you have a large number of blobs being managed. I don't normally recommend this approach.

Better to store metadata in a DB and docs in file system such as IFS, NFS, SAN.

Regards,

Richard Schoen | Director of Document Management Technologies, HelpSystems
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message: 2
date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:21:10 -0000
from: "RPG List" <rpglist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Storage of Images (use in web pages)

I am working on a sideline project for myself personally, educational
edification if you will, and I'd like some feed back from anyone willing
to contribute on how you store your html images for use on the iSeries.

IE: are you storing them in the IFS only, are you storing them in a sql
table? If you don't mind, I'd like to know why your storing them as you do
as well, what the reasons were for the choice you made.

I know some websites in general store them (especially those which are php
table driven) in a database like MySQL or MS SQL server, etc.

Thanks in advance for any and all comments.

Dutch




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