Possible to symlink a file to a web url?

linux

Solution

Maybe a named pipe that you feed with a wget for the file?

Edit - Not wget. You can work with linx -dump. So -

mkfifo reddit
links -dump reddit.com > reddit
cat reddit

Problem

We currently have a challenge where the ideal solution would be to symlink a file to a web URL... image.jpg -> http://www.host.com/images/image.jpg Is this possible?

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