Loading speed of protected media

  • Ive just installed this plugin and it seems to do a perfect job. However, Ive noticed a drastic reduction in the speed of loading of images. Even a file of 10kb, shows a loading… notice, whereas others tested on the same site at the same time, that are much larger, appear to be instant.

    Is this typical of this plugin?

    Thanks

    Mike

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/media-vault/

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  • Plugin Author Max GJ Panas

    (@max-gjp)

    Hey mike,

    Protecting files with Media Vault means rerouting requests for them through WordPress’s scripts and particularly Media Vault’s file-handler script which checks permissions and grants or denies access.

    In designing the plugin, Media Vault hooks into the WordPress init process as soon as possible, so as not to burden each file request with loading WP in its entirety.

    However it does require the theme and the plugins and the core to be loaded which is still quite a hefty amount of code. Particularly if you have a heavy theme or a large number of plugins.

    Each protected file request needs all these components loaded in order to fully process the user requesting the file and the permissions set on the file itself.

    Hope this helps!

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