@DMehaffy Darn, that’s what I’m coming to myself, perusing through the Strapi source code…
One thought I’ve had is that files might be base64 encoded and stored in a string field in the database (or perhaps the db layer could have blob support added). It wouldn’t be efficient for heavy loads, but seems like it would work.
Thoughts on putting files in the Strapi-managed db? One concern I’ve had with that is that it would be preferable to not, by default, return such content attributes on normal GET requests - it would be nice to support downloading them with a separate API call. Not sure if that is possible…