[ansel] Store images with extension?

[Heath S. Hendrickson]

I often wondered initially why the file names were changed to random 
names.  I think it was due to some of the legacy code that Ansel started 
from (Chuck will correct me if I'm wrong here), but it also got around 
the penchant of windows users to use illegal (for *nix, anyway) 
characters (!, $, ?). 

On a related note, would it be that difficult to store the files with 
the original names after passing it through a sanitization filter 
(depending on what host OS Ansel was running under)?  This way a backup 
of the Ansel image directory is directly useable instead of having to 
use the DB to figure out what file was what.  I know that the orginal 
filename is stored in the DB and presented when the image is 
viewed/downloaded, but I'm just thinking about it from a lower level.

heath

Jan Schneider wrote:

>What do you think about storing the images in the VFS backend with an
>extension matching the actual image format?
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>This would fulfill two purposes: If you change the default image format in
>the configuration, thumbnail images would be regenerated automatically. And
>if you use the Alias feature to display the images directly out of the VFS
>backend, they have the correct extension and you could use them outside of
><img> tags, plus the webserver sends the correct Content-Type.
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>Jan.
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