Image Proxy

[AndrewSimm]

An image proxy is a must so vbulletin users can use SPDY as it requires HTTPS. I think this would be a very popular mod and something worth paying for.

[kh99]

OK, I had to look up what was meant by "image proxy" and SPDY, so I don't undersand much about it. But I think vbulletin already works that way for attached images, so I'm not quite sure what you're asking for.

[AndrewSimm]

It would help with linked images. The image would not be stored. Here is the xenforo version
https://xenforo.com/community/resour...ge-proxy.2747/

[TheInsaneManiac]

You can disable the feature to save [IMG] images in tags.

[AndrewSimm]

Well I don't want to save every image to my server. I have a limit for upload images but a lot of users like to link gif's which can be 8MB in size. My site has over 2 million post so it makes a big difference.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by AndrewSimm

It would help with linked images. The image would not be stored. Here is the xenforo version
https://xenforo.com/community/resour...ge-proxy.2747/

I see. That seems like it shouldn't be too difficult, except maybe the caching part (not that I'm promising to do it myself).

Edit: Actually, I might take a shot at this. If someone else intends to do it, please let me know so I don't waste effort.

[AndrewSimm]

I know it has become someone popular in the xenforo community since digitalpoint and theadminzone both use it. The images are the only thing I can think of that keeps vbulletin users from using SPDY. MaxCDN and CloudFlare both support it as well.

I am not sure how many people still ready this forum but I would install this in a heart beat.

Here is a good read as well where thethemefoundry switched to SPDY.
https://thethemefoundry.com/blog/why...-cdn-spdy-ssl/

[kh99]

Originally Posted by AndrewSimm

Here is a good read as well where thethemefoundry switched to SPDY.
https://thethemefoundry.com/blog/why...-cdn-spdy-ssl/

That's interesting. I'm mostly a programmer so I don't understand it all, but it seems like those guys are saying they got better performance because SPDY eliminates the extra connection time by only requiring one SSL connection for everything. But it seems to me that if you use a proxy to get external content, then you've just moved that extra connection time from the browser to your server, so you may not see the gains. But I guess part of the idea is to have everything delivered via https?

[Zachery]

I'd just move static content over to a CDN on spdy.

[AndrewSimm]

I believe there was little support for SPDY on CDN when thethemefoundry wrote that article. You would really want to do both.

Browsers only use 1 SPDY connection per host. The image proxy would basically eliminate mix content messages. This video is what I have found the best at explaining it. SPDY is basically HTTP 2.0.

SSL is basically needed to keep networks from blocking its traffic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkLBrHW4NhQ