[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28205: XMLRPC should probably expose Sideloading of images for shared hosts.

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#28205: XMLRPC should probably expose Sideloading of images for shared hosts.
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 Reporter:  georgestephanis  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  XML-RPC          |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by redsweater):

 I love the idea of working around the problem of WordPress's API falling
 over easily on large media uploads. But I wonder if the better solution
 would be to provide some mechanism through which clients could POST raw
 binary data, akin to what happens when a user uploads media through the
 wp-admin interface.

 I know that uploading binary data is not possible in the pure XMLRPC
 interface, but some kind of well-defined mechanism for POSTing binary
 seems like a better long-term solution than relying upon uploading the
 data to a separate location only to be "sideloaded" into WordPress.

 What if there were a WordPress XMLRPC API that vended a binary POST URL
 for more efficient uploads? Something like "wp.uploadBinaryFile" which
 could yield a one-time URL suitable for POST-ing the desired binary data.
 The URL could be pre-configured with some kind of session data that
 assured its security and also connected it to the provisional file being
 uploaded.

 From my perspective it would be great to be able to tell WordPress, via
 the XMLRPC API, that I have a file to upload, and here's all the metadata
 about it (typical arguments to wp.uploadFile), but the data itself will be
 coming in a subsequent POST to a specific URL.

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