Streaming Databased Images Using HttpHandler

Question

For a long time now I have noticed something annoying when working on Web Application projects involving databased images on my local machine. By local I mean that it\'s a t

Answer 1

If you are serving images directly, do not forget to set the correct caching headers, i.e. etags and expires. If you don't you are really going to hit your database hard and use up your bandwidth.

You will need to handle the following http headers:

• ETag
• Expires
• Last-Modified
• If-Match
• If-None-Match
• If-Modified-Since
• If-Unmodified-Since
• Unless-Modified-Since

For an example http handler that does this check out: http://code.google.com/p/talifun-web/wiki/StaticFileHandler