Instant CDN on Google App Engine

This is Instant CDN on Google App Engine clone built on Flask with some tweaks and additions. You can contact me at profile page.

Features

This web service will retrieve the resource located on your server, cache it on Google App Engine servers and serve it to your users with smart cache headers. This will provide the following benefits:

• Instant scalability for all of your static resources.
• Faster page load of Web objects to the end user.
• Reduces bandwidth needs and cost.
• Reduces load on your web server.

Basic usage: file cache

Replace all your files urls with:

http://goseethem.appspot.com/c/[unique_path]?url=[file_url]

For example, to cache an image at http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif, use this url:

http://goseethem.appspot.com/c/google/logo.gif?url=http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif

Image Size

To resize your image, specify a size parameter, i.e:

http://goseethem.appspot.com/c/google/logo.small.gif?url=http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif&size=100x100

Valid values for size parameter:

• 100x100 - resize to this dimension, retaining the original aspect ratio.
• 100x100b - resize to this dimension, only if the original is bigger.
• 100x100c - crop to this dimension.

Size can also be specified in file name, i.e. logo.small__100x100c.gif (note double underscore).

Subdomain

You can use subdomains to avoid collisions with already existed file, i.e.:

http://[subdomain].goseethem.appspot.com/c/google/logo.small.gif?url=http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif&size=100x100

API

Adding file

http://goseethem.appspot.com/a/[unique_path]?url=[url]&size=[image_size]

Response:

• Redirect to the file on server, i.e. http://goseethem.appspot.com/s/[unique_path]
• 404 page if provided [url] can't be fetched.
• 500 page if provided [size] is in unknown format or file at [url] is not image.

Serving file

http://goseethem.appspot.com/s/[unique_path]

Response:

• 200 page with requested file.
• 404 page if requested file not found.

Caching file

This is combination of adding and serving file in one step. If file at [unique_path] exists on server (i.e. is already cached) it will be served. Otherwise file will be fetched from the [url] and cached on the server, then cached file will be served.

http://goseethem.appspot.com/c/[unique_path]?url=[url]&size=[image_size]

Response:

• 200 page with requested file.
• 404 page if provided [url] can't be fetched.

If size can't be recongized or file is not image nothing happens.