Re: Images in Database

Reshat Sabiq wrote:
 > [...]
 > Then the only reasons i can see to not store images in a DB, and the
 > following:
 > i. If the same images also need to be accessed from a file system, such
 > as by a web server, as regular URLs.
 > [...]
 > Of these 3, only i. appears to be a realistic concern for images. It's a
 > lot easier to list a URL on an [X][HT]ML page.

That's not really a problem.  You can write a trivial CGI
program in your favourite language (Python, PHP, Perl or
whatever, even /bin/sh) that fetches an image from the DB,
so you can write URLs like http://.../imgfetch.cgi?foo.jpg.

You're even a lot more flexible that way, because you can
fetch images by various criteria, not just by filename.

Best regards
   Oliver

PS:  I've trimmed the "Cc:" list a bit.

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