Subject Re: [firebird-support] big images in database
Author Doug Chamberlin
Alan McDonald wrote:
> you need to store the blobs on the server?, then you need to have each
> client see and have access to the blob in the server's file system so the
> path needs to resolve for every client in a reliable manner. You also need
> to manage permissions correctly.

I think the best solution to this "problem" is to provide a RESTful
interface to the server that stores the blob files. That way you can
avoid SMB shares or other unstructured, unsupervised access to the whole
blob collection.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer