[Wylug-help] Image manipulation service/server

[Jim Jackson]

Being a bit of an oldfashioned sort of guy, my first thought was use
email. send the image as an attachment to an address, and process the
email to create the thumbnail etc, and return the output via email.

Jim

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Felix Ulrich-Oltean wrote:

> Hi
>
> We have a number of systems (in Python, Perl and PHP) which all need
> to process images uploaded by users.  We want to produce images
> e.g. thumbnails of a consistent quality across these systems.  We are
> therefore considering making an "images sever" that wraps image
> manipulation stuff and is available to all our systems via some
> universal standard, e.g. http or xml-rpc or whatever else.
>
> Has anyone done such a thing already?
>
> Is there a better way of achieving our aim?
>
> Any suggestions as to what would make the most sensible way of
> implementing the image service and communicating between these
> systems?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Felix.
>
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