[Imc-drupal-dev] remote media hosting

[Bruno De Bondt]

Hi Kobi,

> we at israel imc have been migrating to a drupal site for a while. we
> are looking to have media stored on a media server and embedded into
> the drupal site automatically.  We have a media server (thanks to
> images.indymedia.org <http://images.indymedia.org>) and haave ftp
> access to it. Does someone know a way to do this ?

I don't. But I want to do this too, so I'm interesting in looking into
this together. Here's what I know, quickly from the top of my head:

- I know that it's currently hard to do this in Drupal.
- Wim Leers is working on this for his bachelor's thesis. Basically,
he's basically working on a core patch for D6, and is aiming to prepare
that for inclusion in D7 core. See
http://wimleers.com/blog/bachelor-thesis-on-drupals-page-loading-performance.
He's starting from http://drupal.org/project/cdn. His thesis needs to be
finished in June. I could check with him if he would be interested in us
as testers for this.
- There is also
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/using-lighttpd-static-file-server,
which is a description of how to do it.

- bruno