Cliff, thanks for the reply. I read this: "mod_ext_filter presents a simple and familiar programming model for filters. With this module, a program which reads from stdin and writes to stdout (i.e., a Unix-style filter command) can be a filter for Apache. This filtering mechanism is much slower than using a filter which is specially written for the Apache API and runs inside of the Apache server process, but it does have the following benefits:"
I'm particularly concerned with: "This filtering mechanism is much slower than using a filter which is specially written for the Apache API and runs inside of the Apache server process..." My main concern would be with how expensive ImageMagick calls can be and the need to call both mogrify and convert (in my experience) to get a single thing done to an image. I would much rather read an image into memory and then perform a host of functions to it rather then read, write, read, write, etc. Perhaps mod_ext_filter performs better then I'm assuming it does. I'm not sure I would agree that this is the best mechanism for processing images with ImageMagick. Of course, this is all less interesting if there is a proxy caching the images. In which case, the performance hit is to generate the initial image only. On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Cliff Woolley wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Michael Montero wrote: > > > Hello! Wondering if anyone is working on/interested in a module that > > wraps the ImageMagick functionality? I'm thinking it would be used as > > such: > > > > <IMG SRC="/images/blah.gif?im=rot|90;size|100x100|...."> > > Just as a hint, mod_ext_filter and mod_cache in Apache 2.0 would likely be > helpful for this. mod_ext_filter to do the interface to ImageMagick and > mod_cache to keep the output with the same parameters from having to be > regenerated every single time. Given those two, I bet you could get this > functionality having to actually write a new module. :) > > --Cliff > > -- Michael C. Montero Chief Technology Officer Community Connect Inc. Co-founder [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-= Community Connect Inc. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Premier Source of Interactive Online Communities 149 Fifth Avenue http://www.CommunityConnectInc.com/ New York, NY 10010 http://www.AsianAvenue.com/ http://www.BlackPlanet.com/ Click into Asian America The World Is Yours http://www.MiGente.com/ http://www.DiversityJobMarket.com/ The Power of Latinos In partnership with The New York Times ----- Your Message May Appear Below This Line
