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Adam
Adam

Reputation: 20932

Upload a photo to another domain

I have a number of different domains where I would like users to be able to select a photo, however I want to photos uploaded/stored on one central separated domain.

Is there a more advisable way to do this?

I've considered using an iframe from the other domain (so they are interacting with the required domain) but haven't tried it yet.

I have also read that curl can potentially do this.

Any other ideas/problems/concerns...

All advise appreciated.

thx

Upvotes: 0

Views: 429

Answers (2)

Patrick
Patrick

Reputation: 3440

There are a couple ways you can handle this. Here are the scenarios I see.

Scenario A: All domains are on the same server. With this setup you can actually help your server security by storing the images and other files in a directory that is not accessible by Apache. Then you use PHP to serve the file to the end user through virtual links. Drupal does this with its private file system.

If the users are able to upload images from the other domains then just have all of the domains write the images to the same directory, but then always return the "central" domain's URL for retrieving them.

Scenario B: The domains exist across two or more servers. With this setup what you really need to do is setup an API where the other domains communicate behind the scenes to send the photo to the core repository domain. This domain saves it and returns a URL for accessing it.

In either case you should really look up CDN technology. Its basically what your trying to accomplish plus a lot more. I would also recommend that in either scenario that you always use the path on the central domain for all the images instead of returning them back through the current domain.

Upvotes: 1

user149341
user149341

Reputation:

No reason to get iframes or curl involved. Assuming that all these domains are on the same server (or same cluster of servers), there is nothing which requires that a file uploaded using a file on one domain must only be served from that domain. An upload form can do whatever it wants with the uploaded file, including storing it in a location where it'll be available from your central domain.

Upvotes: 0

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