Re: How to make FASTCGI deliver an external file

Jose Adriano Baltieri <jabaltie-a/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fastcgi.devel
Organization UNIMEP
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ravi Menon wrote:
>> > But I can see some value in re-using exsisting http server capability
>> > in serving files as you suggest (it does its own default
>> > authorizations etc.. which you may want to also apply - i.e. basic
>> > unix permissions and so on). Incidentally apache 2x does use
>> > sendfile() in  Linux and FreeBSD env. (if my memory serves me right).
>> OK.
>>
>> So, as you can see the worth of it, I think it's some to say it loud
>> enough so that FastCGI protocol group can her us....
>>
> One minor typo in the earlier discussion: I meant to say default http
> authentication
> rules  and not unix permissions as sendfile() will take care of that.
> I leave it to the fast-cgi protocol experts to see if it is feasible
> to support it.
Lighthttp does seem to have something similar :

  :"allow-x-send-file": controls if X-LIGHTTPD-send-file headers
                are allowed

Dont know if it's the same thing but it looks like what I'm searching for...


Obrigado,
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                Jose Adriano Baltieri - Analista de Sistemas
                DTI - CENTRO - UNIMEP - Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba
                PIRACICABA - SP - Brasil - Fone : (19) 3124-1858
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