Lack of interest Caching external images

[cedivad]

Every external image (from signature pic to post images from imageshack.us) is cached. Every url is replaced. Example:

Not cached:
http://somesite.com/pic.jpg

xF detects it's an image (it's supposed to be if it's inside the [ img ] tag) and replace the url above to:
http://mysite.com/cache.php?url=http://somesite.com/pic.jpg

This have multiple functions:
1) load the image faster
2) if the image gets deleted you have a local copy of it
3) page than load faster

Google for example, does it.

I know i will not see it here soon, but maybe you can put it in your TODO list.

 

[Ahmed]

I used some mode to cache external images in my server once posted in my forum and change the link to point to the new images (used some mode for that). Within two days there was about 1000 images (40MB+). I had to move all the images to imageshack.us, changed all the urls to the new ones, and then remove them from my server.
Caching images might be very useful in many cases, but you might end up with a huge amount/size of images specially if got a very big board. And that maybe cause some of additional work specially if you have to move your server. Not to mention people who might link to this images from other site and affection your bandwidth.
But the idea is nice specially when you have some threads/post depend on images or if you have some kind of (tutorials sites).

 

[cedivad]

Even if i will have to use a dedicated server to do this i will... it's worth it =)

 

[Ahmed]

Even if i will have to use a dedicated server to do this i will... it's worth it =)

I can understand that. I'd like to use that in some cases. But I -more- prefer to have a minimum amount/size of files in my server as possible.

 

[cedivad]

I understand you. Moreover bandwidth is expensive =)

 

[Luke F]

css.php is bad enough, please do not implement this.

The purpose of using an efficient webserver goes right out the window with things like css.php.

 

[gordy]

Images are supposed to stay the same =)
Why should they change?

Hahaha, herding cats comes to mind !

 

[cedivad]

What do you have against css.php? It looks like it simply load the css a page is required, better than that there is nothing!

 

[0ptima]

I would like to cache all that is possible to increase speed.