is this possible?

[Eden Li]

I don't think it's possible to that inside nginx natively.  Maybe you
could use embedded perl or have a backend proxy like
rails/mongrel/merb do it on nginx's behalf.

On 10/20/07, Adam Michaels <adam at digitalagemedia.net> wrote:
> I had a similar question to using nginx with Amazon's S3. Is it possible for
> nginx to look in its local cache for an image, if its not there, grab it
> from S3, and cache it before sending it to the user under my domain instead
> of S3's?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Sysoev" <is at rambler-co.ru>
> To: <nginx at sysoev.ru>
> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 4:40 AM
> Subject: Re: is this possible?
>
>
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:19:21PM -0700, Ben Marklein wrote:
> >
> >> I'm relatively new to nginx and I'm trying to figure
> >> out whether it's suitable for a specific use I have.
> >> I'd like to set up the following for serving a high
> >> volume of "badge" images in a lazy mannger.  These are
> >> images that are customized per-user, for use on social
> >> network site profile pages.  Can someone tell me if
> >> this will be possible using nginx?
> >>
> >> 1) Request for /badge/username.jpg comes into nginx.
> >> It proxies(?) to S3 using a standardized scheme.
> >> 2) If the image is present it's passed back via nginx.
> >>  If not, we get a 404.  nginx then proxies to a Rails
> >> app that generates the image on the fly, and kicks off
> >> a background task to upload the image to S3 so that.
> >>
> >> If someone could tell me whether this is possible and
> >> ideally provide some configuration pseudocode I would
> >> be very grateful.  Thanks!
> >
> > S3 - is it Amazon S3 ?
> >
> >    location  /badge/ {
> >        proxy_pass   http://...S3...
> >
> >        proxy_intercept_errors  on;
> >        error_page    404  =  @rails;
> >    }
> >
> >    location  @rails {
> >        proxy_pass   http://rails;
> >    }
> >
> >
> > --
> > Igor Sysoev
> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >
> >
>
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