id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
12496,blog.dir should not require the use of php to serve large files,Denis-de-Bernardy,,"On MS installs, files are uploaded to:

{{{
blog.dir/site_id/files/path/file.ext
}}}

We then use a rewrite rule to pass these things through WP, which uses php to read the file. in addition to introducing performance problems with large files (as anyone who wrote an access-restriction script knows all too well), this makes absolutely no sense.

a much more rational approach to do the same thing would upload them in:

{{{
blog.dir/site_host[/base_dir]/path/file.ext
}}}

we could then use a simple rewrite rule to serve the files without even loading php, i.e.:

{{{
RewriteRule /files/ /wp-content/files/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
}}}

... with the additional benefit of being able to add .htaccess files and the like in individual blog folders.",feature request,closed,normal,,Multisite,3.0,normal,duplicate,has-patch,