Re: Streaming files

You could put the files behind Nginx and use your mod_perl web app as an
external authentication service. I've never done it but it doesn't look too
hard.

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019, 12:25 PM John Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:

> In Java servlets, I can stream a file back to the browser one chunk at a
> time. This has 2 benefits which interest me.
> 1) Files can be stored outside the web root so users cannot download them
> unless they are logged in, even if they know the path.
> 2) Large files can be streamed back to the client without having the
> entire file loaded into memory at the same time
>
> How would you recommend achieving similar functionality in mod_perl?
>
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