Is it possible to force nginx to return base64 images?

Question

Nginx

Hello.
Is it possible to somehow configure nginx so that, for example, site.ru/images/1.png returns an image, and site.ru/images/1.png.base64 returns an image, but with a base64 string?
Thank you.

Answer 1

why not immediately generate and stupidly give it as static?

Answer 2

The number of images does not increase, or increases slightly, or increases and all of them are often requested
- make base64 at once and make gzip -9 (1.png.base64.gz)
If there are many images and not all of them are requested
- do dynamic generation with result caching

Answer 3

Out of the box, he does not know how.
There is a module: https://github.com/timebug/base64-nginx-module