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Can I make a url act as an alias for another url

So I need cdn.ex.com/avatars/:UserID point to my cloud public file URI which is https://cloudapi.com/account.cloud.com/files/uploads/avatars/(userid)/avatar.png (true URL is put) I don't have any code yet except

app.get('/avatars/:userid', (req, res)=>{
    let userid = req.params.userid
    let uri = `https://cloudapi.com/account.cloud.com/files/uploads/avatars/${userid}/avatar.png`

});

So I shall be able to do in html:

<span>Username</span>
<img class="pfp" src="cdn.ex.com/avatars/671856275627525">

Instead of having to do

<span>Username</span>
<img class="pfp" src="https://cloudapi.com/account.cloud.com/files/uploads/avatars/671856275627525/avatar.png">

Any help on how can I do that?

Solution

  • I found it, You use node-fetch to fetch the resource Then send data as buffer If its used in tag it will work, if a user tried going to the link it will work too. Goto google and search node-fetch then goto its npm and search for Buffer Then just res.send(buffer) instead of fileType(buffer) and remove the last line. Thanks for @Marc for trying to help (in comments)