Stage File Proxy. The Stage File Proxymodule saves the day by sending requests for files to the live server if it does not exist yet in your local environment. It allows you to do things like render views blocks regions entities with view mode fields forms and image styles all just in Twig. First install it with –dev so its only installed in dev environments. Just wanted to put this somewhere for reference.
This module saves time and most importantly - disk space. Stage File Proxy lets you update the database of your local development instance without having to update your files directory. 122011 Stage File Proxy is a general solution for getting production files on a development server on demand. Stage File Proxy is a Drupal module that sends requests to your development environments files directory to the production environment and making a copy of the production file in your development site. If you do not want that switch off this behaviour by writing into settingsphp confstage_file_proxy_use_imagecache_root FALSE. It saves you time and disk space by sending requests to your development environments files directory to the production environment and making a copy of the production file in your development site.
For example you can define a stage variable and then set its value as an HTTP endpoint for an HTTP proxy integration.
Stage File Proxy lets you update the database of your local development instance without having to update your files directory. Composer require drupalstage_file_proxy drupalconfig_split –dev. The evl_poll interface can monitor the following events occurring on a proxy file descriptor. 18 Jan 2019 at 2320 UTC. Instead of downloading the derivates created by imagecache it downloads the respective source iamge. POLLOUT and POLLWRNORM are set whenever the output ring buffer some polled file descriptor refers to is empty AND allocated which means that a proxy initialized with a zero-sized output buffer never raises these events.