I am using an internal content repository which does not use the filenames to store the content but just numbers. So e.g. malte.gif would be 23/34/233401 in the file system.

My OpenACS application picks this up easily because it knows the mime_type, the file_name and the location from the database.

My question now is though, would it be possible to have an internal location, which not only accepts the file path, but also the file_name and mime_type and return that correctly to the user? So my webserver could redirect with X-Accel-Redirect to "/files/ 23/34/233401?file_name=malte.gif&mime_type=image/gif" and nginx would deal with correctly returning the file?

Maybe I am asking too much, but http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/11/01/ nginx-x-accel-redirect-php-rails/ brings me already half way.

Alternatively I could always use proxy_store, though I am not sure if it handles fine the fact that I would access a file e.g. /images/ 233401 and my server returns malte.gif, I probably need to test that.

Cheers Malte

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