Proxy an image

[NotionCommotion]

I am building an API which will provide services to a PHP client (PHP is acting as a server to the browser, but acts as a client to the API). One of the functions the API does is create png images.

 

The browser client needs to access these images.  I would rather the browser client not directly access the API server, but only access the PHP webserver.  I would also rather not require the PHP server to need to store a copy of the png image.

 

Can I somehow proxy the image so that the browser client directly accesses the webserver and can download the image?

 

 

[Jacques1]

This is a standard reverse proxy setup, and the configuration for your specific webserver should be in the documentation (or on Google).

[NotionCommotion]

This is a standard reverse proxy setup, and the configuration for your specific webserver should be in the documentation (or on Google).

 

So, it cannot be done via PHP, but require Apache/nginx/etc configuration?  The PHP server script will be ran by others, and I don't wish to complicate there setup.

[Jacques1]

You can cURL every single picture with PHP if you want to, but this is obviously the worst possible solution in terms of performance and bandwidth.

 

Setting up a reverse proxy is trivial. Before you jump to hacks, simply ask the people who run the server.