Re: Serving images from databases
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17140
interpreted = N
texte = >>I strongly agree. I have spent more than a day trying to do exactly this >>with images (haven't you ever wanted to have some WebDNA execute whenever >>an image is served?), but failed, and now I understand why. >Dave McLeay said:>If excecuting WebDNA when an image is served is all you need, then there >are other ways to do it. In your
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tag, make the src an .html or .tmpl >file (i.e.
). > >On somepage.html you can do whatever WebDNA processing you need to do. Then >use [Redirect] (or [ReturnRaw] if you're not using 2.1.1) to send the >browser to the image file. >But what if the client doesn't handle redirect? This is not as uncommon as you might think: legacy preformance measurement tools, older browsers, and so on. On the Internet, almost everything is a special case. I try to avoid this as much as possible, and try to make everything plain vanilla.And how about generating an image with content that changes based on some WebDNA code? That would be cool...Regards Thomas WB
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>>I strongly agree. I have spent more than a day trying to do exactly this >>with images (haven't you ever wanted to have some WebDNA execute whenever >>an image is served?), but failed, and now I understand why. >Dave McLeay said:>If excecuting WebDNA when an image is served is all you need, then there >are other ways to do it. In your
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tag, make the src an .html or .tmpl >file (i.e.
). > >On somepage.html you can do whatever WebDNA processing you need to do. Then >use
[redirect] (or
[returnraw] if you're not using 2.1.1) to send the >browser to the image file. >But what if the client doesn't handle redirect? This is not as uncommon as you might think: legacy preformance measurement tools, older browsers, and so on. On the Internet, almost everything is a special case. I try to avoid this as much as possible, and try to make everything plain vanilla.And how about generating an image with content that changes based on some WebDNA code? That would be cool...Regards Thomas WB
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