Hi Matthew,

Le jeudi 26 juin 2025, 19:35:55 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Matthew Wild a
écrit :
> [SNIP]
> So despite my initial enthusiasm for off-the-shelf proxy support, it
> seems that it might actually be worth considering other options. For
> example, we could do something similar to Matrix, where you make a
> normal HTTPS request to your own server, with the remote URL embedded
> in the path. Your server will then transparently fetch the remote
> resource and return it. Something like:
>
>   'GET https://recipient.example/fetch/share.sender.example/
d8c16ada-52b3-11f0-9de6-1b9c14dcd995/cat.jpg'
>
> This has a number of advantages:
> [SNIP]

That's actually what I had in mind when thinking about a proxy for this use-
case. On my wishlist, I would love it to have a way to get a preview of
images/video and/or a resized media to some common resolutions. The  benefit
would be that :

- we could cache and share preview/resized image/video for huge files at the
proxy level.

- devices with restricted resources (connection/CPU), typically mobile
devices, could get a small file instead of having to request a huge one then
resize on-device.

Of course, and in particular for videos, it could be resource intensive for
the server. But at least for images, it would be a useful feature.