Comments on: Webthumb API additions

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:34:31 +0000

epto: I am looking into adding json support in the future, but its not like the xml were working with is complex so i don’t see a huge win for anyone by supporting it and there are more interesting features to work on.

By: epto

epto — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:18:32 +0000

I think:
json or serialize are better than xml in this application!
This script is simple and it work.

sid: is sthe filename

$sid=@$_GET['sid'];
$id=@$_GET['id'];

$savepath=”/mysavepath”;
$path=substr($id,-2).’/’.substr($id,-4,-2).’/’.substr($id,-6,-4);
$url=”http://webthumb.bluga.net/data/$path/$id.jpg”;
$data=file_get_contents($url);
if ($data!==FALSE AND strpos($data,’OK

Get this script as example and test
Don’t lost the money and time with other!

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:34:09 +0000

John:
You can have multiple request blocks for multiple urls see http://bluga.net/webthumb/api.txt for an example.

Filename wise I don’t have a way to do nicer ones until I do a new rev of the api since I need unique names on my end and the files are directly exposed with the current design.

By: John

John — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:38:49 +0000

Great web service, thank you.

Is there a way to make this get multiple images (from multiple URLs at a time? Or feed it a list of URLs?
And also to save them with filename domain1.com.jpeg, domain2.com.jpeg etc?

Seems to me these changes would make it very useful for lots of people

Thanks
John

By: Oscar Merida

Oscar Merida — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:13:59 +0000

Great service - the jobDir has changed since this script was written, I had to change it to the following to get it to work:

$jobDir = substr($jobId,-2) . ‘/’ . substr($jobId, -4, 2) . ‘/’ . substr($jobId, -6, 2);

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:34:04 +0000

The notify seems to be working beautifully for me. Awesome feature!

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:11:05 +0000

Nima, it was in my testing, but I don’t think many people have used it yet so there could be a bug.

I don’t see a request in the logs that contains a notify URL, but things are working correctly in my testing.

Send me an email (josh@bluga.net) with the XML payload your sending and we will get it worked out.

By: Nima

Nima — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:28:03 +0000

Hi,

I use your notify script on my own server, but it seems not getting any hit (request) from your server.
Is it working correctly?

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:05:35 +0000

Mike: I’ll looking into putting the data back, with a notify type approach. I went with making a seperate request for the image because its something I could get up and running in an hour. It also allows me to serve up the images with straight apache instead of through php. Anyhow there are some other features i’d like to add to the API and i’ll put your idea on that list.

By: Mike Naberezny

Mike Naberezny — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:21:22 +0000

Joshua,

Another approach is that you could extend the WebThumb API to allow the client to specify which image size(s) the server should return. This would give the server enough information to then complete the next transaction in single asynchronous POST request back to the client with the image data instead of just notifying.

The client end would be simplified by not having to make another request and no longer needing the secret key. Clients would also gain the familiarity and efficiency of having the images you POST back like handled any other file uploads.

On the server, it saves a roundtrip. Also, scripts like notify.php above can hold your notifier connection open until the download is complete on a separate connection, effectively doubling the number of connections your server has to handle. POSTing the data back in a single request eliminates this possibility so it will allow you to scale better as the API usage grows.

If you implement this, consider PUTting the image data back instead of POSTing it. RESTifarians will appreciate your good taste in verbs and PHP provides handling for PUT requests (http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.put-method.php). If you wanted to get fancy and add a little extra security, allow users to specify auth credentials to use in the return PUT and then they even have the option of configuring their HTTP server to collect the images you send automatically.

Regards,
Mike Naberezny