#4029 - SERVE_LOCALLY symbol (to serve self cached versions of third party hosted URLs)

Identifier #4029
Issue type Feature request or suggestion
Title SERVE_LOCALLY symbol (to serve self cached versions of third party hosted URLs)
Status Closed (duplicate)
Handling member Chris Graham
Addon core
Description Add a new Tempcode symbol, SERVE_LOCALLY. The purpose is a way to copy remote URLs locally using Tempcode, and serve them locally (maybe for speed, maybe to avoid hammering someone else's server, maybe as an automatic backup). You pass it a URL and the first time it runs it copies that URL to a local file using an algorithmicly-defined filename (i.e. if the local file does not exist yet). A second optional parameter would force a particular file extension (as we have no other way of replicating the original mime-type if we are just serving on-disk files with no database data).

E.g.

{$SERVE_LOCALLY,http://example.com/some-video,mp4}

This example would download the file at "http://example.com/some-video" and save it in something like "uploads/localised_remote_urls/some-video.mp4". In this example the URL has no file extension, so I am forcing one so I know it will have the correct mime type served by Apache.

The symbol would most likely be used in catalogue templates, when people enter URLs to media.
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Related to

#3854 - Auto-tracked/proxied linking via Tempcode
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