Fetch

The Fetch alias type is used when your image assets are publicly available on the internet. When setting it up, you specify the domain where the service can go grab your images. You can optionally specify any top-level folder structure that your images follow.

Some scenarios on how to achieve this are:

• You have your own web-server, and your images are accessible at an http(s) uri like: http://my-serverdomain/my-images/image1.jpg
  • A typical windows setup involves IIS.
  • A typical *nix setup involves Apache or another web-server.
• Your images live in an online service (like Amazon S3 bucket or a Google Storage) and they have been configured to be public and accessible thru http(s).

With this type of alias, the ixmage service will request the image thru the http or https protocol from the source you specify, and will optimize and transform it to fit your use-cases.

Example

Let’s say that you own a server that is exposed publicly on the internet, and you have put some folders there where your images reside. Now you can access your images by visiting an uri address like:

http://127.555.66.777/images/ecommerce/category1/sku000001.jpg

Let’s set up the following alias:

Let’s say that your account token is TtAaCcOoSs

Now you can access the image as
https://cdn.ixmage.com/v2/TtAaCcOoSs/my-images/images/ecommerce/category1/sku000001.jpg

Behind the scenes, ixmage will resolve your my-images alias to http://127.555.66.777 and append images/ecommerce/category1/sku000001.jpg (the rest of the request uri as explained here) to grab your image.

Now let’s work with the alias configuration a bit. If we change the settings to

Then we can use this url to access the image:
https://cdn.ixmage.com/v2/TtAaCcOoSs/my-images/category1/sku000001.jpg

The domain along with the 2 initial folders are hidden away behind the alias name.

The minimum/required fields to create an alias of type Fetch are:

The following fields will enable other behaviors:

More information about aliases here.