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		pavel_lishin on May 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Application Cache Is A Douchebag Because then I'd have to open an image in PHP just to output it right back out. More work than just having Apache serve it.

cstejerean on May 8, 2012 [–]

You can use X-SendFile (or X-AccelRedirect) to have your PHP code tell Apache or Nginx which image to serve, without having to send a 302 to the browser.

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