[Rets-dev] RETS manifest\

[dbt]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:22:44AM -0400, Libor Viktorin wrote:
> Unfortunately, in some cases the binary data may be generated on-demand
> by the server (eg loading the image from a database, or
> formatting/branding an image for the RETS user). In this case providing
> just URL would mean storing the generated data in a temporary file, with
> all the overhead of expiring and deleting the file after some time.

This may come as a huge shock to some people, but you can generate data
dynamically for an HTTP client without using SOAP.  We used to have this
little thing called CGI...  And there are far more advanced ways of 
doing this.  I've output dynamic images from IIS using ASPX.NET, and 
I'm pretty sure SOAP wasn't involved.

byte[] data = get_image_from_database(id);
Response.ContentType = 'image/jpeg';
Response.Write(data);
Response.Close();

Just reading around I came across this project from CRT:
http://www.crt.realtors.org/projects/visualkeeper/index.html

So clearly you can do this in PHP as well.

PHP + IIS = 99% of all webservers (if not webapps), so clearly 
this isn't rocket science.

 - dbt