Question

This is for a in house system, that is required to be set-up this way.

I need specific web files, for example, all images to be manually pre-installed on a proxy server and never downloaded from the web server.

When the browser request the page, the only thing sent from the web server to the proxy should be the plain html page.

I would then like the images the html page uses, to be grabbed from the the proxy every time, for the complete render to the browser.

Is there a name for this set up? I have seen about caching but I do not even want the images downladed once. In addition, how would the html page know to use the images from the proxy?

How would I set up such a thing? I do not have a proxy server set-up yet so I do not know what platform I will be using, but suggestions are appreciated.

Thank You.

Answer 1

Well, I think that you could, for example, use Privoxy and tell it to redirect some queries for images to a local server or even let it replace the img src=" attribute inline using regexes.