accessing images on remote server

[Anon]

Hi,

I am having a tricky problem:

We have a setup with two machines hosted on two domains: image_server.domain1.com and web_server.domain2.com

There are two images on image_server: image1 and image2

I am trying to find a way to display image1 or image2 on the web_server based on the value of a cookie that can only be access on domain1.com

I wrote a quick PHP script that successfully reads the cookie and echoes the proper html <img tag, but i don't know how to call it from web_server (it must execute on the image_server to be able to access the cookie value and there is no php on the web_server)

Am i missing something obvious or is it really tricky? Help! Thanks.

GQ-

[Anon]

If your PHP script is on web_server.domain2.com and you need to read an image from another server based on a cookie holding the image name, I would do it like this.

read the cookie value and assign it to a variable.
$image_name = $cookie_value;

echo the IMG SRC string with using the image servers address.
echo "<img src='http://image_server.domain1.com/$image_name'>";

Is that what you mean?

[Anon]

well.

that works but the php script must run on domain1 (the cookie is set on domain1 and unfortunately cannot be accessed from domain2. In this scenario, the web_server does not even run php)

GQ-