Re: Storage of Images (use in web pages)

I agree with Richard,

If you have 'protected' images or documents they should be placed behind
the scene and
served by a CGI program that is able to check the security.

If you have 'public' images or documents they should be placed

a. In the local apache domain making it possible to cache them.

b. On an external server thus saving local bandwidth and processing time on
IBM I

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Were you just paraphrasing what I said or was there an alternate point ?
:-)

Regards,

Richard Schoen | Director of Document Management Technologies, HelpSystems
T: + 1 952-486-6802
RJS Software Systems | A Division of HelpSystems
richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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message: 4
date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:53:16 -0600
from: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: 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

T: + 1 952-486-6802
RJS Software Systems | A Division of HelpSystems
richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.rjssoftware.com

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