Rewriting media upload requests

[ivanblagdan]

I had a situation where I wanted playgrounds to mirror a heavy production website with media upload attachments. We have a similar pattern in-house for local dev environments where we reverse proxying image requests to the prod domain.
The following is a basic example of how I've dealt with the problem by intercepting and redirecting requests for /wp-content/uploads* requests.

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[ivanblagdan]

@adamziel, something like this?

[bgrgicak]

This would be a great feature for the Sandbox plugin. Instead of zipping the uploads content and sending it to Playground, we could redirect media requests back to the original site if they aren't found in Playground sites file system.

[bgrgicak]

It would be nice if this blueprint would load an image from a remote server (this Git repo) on the home page.

[adamziel]

Oh I really like the idea behind this Blueprint! Let's get it in, thank you for contributing :)