Re: Avoid processing for images?

Thanks, Jacob. Though it would be sooo much easier if I could say in 
Skunk "ExcludeFileType jpg", and it would serve the file statically...

Simon

Jacob Smullyan wrote on 09/16/2005 11:44 AM:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:40:29AM -0400, Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is there a way to tell Skunk to avoid processing certain file types 
>>(images, videos, etc)? I know how to exclude a certain directory, but I 
>>would rather use a more generic command to exclude .jpg, .mov etc 
>>wherever they are found?
> 
> 
> I assume this is in a mod_skunkweb context, and is thus really an
> apache question.  SkunkWeb itself will of course serve up those files
> anyway, just not as efficiently and with negative consequences on its
> availability to do other work.
> 
> I'm sure there is some apache foo that could help out.  Possibilities
> worth checking out:
> 
>    1. using a rewrite rule that mapped the request internally to a different
>       virtual host that isn't configured to use the skunkweb handler (or 
>       to proxy a different webserver).


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