Re: Serving Files with AServe

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On Samstag, September 13, 2003, at 02:10  Uhr, Tyler Palmer wrote:

> Users select which files from a list they want in an archive. When 
> they hit
> submit, a background process executes a shell command to zip the chosen
> files into an archive. Once the shell command returns, the URL for the 
> file
> is published and the user's web page refreshes to the file's URL which 
> cause
> the browser's save dialog to come up.

Why not simply set the response type to application/octet-stream and 
dump the file to the request-reply-stream of the request?  Has the same 
effect (except on Internet Explorer when it thinks it can out-guess the 
webserver about the file type); no need to publish a new URL for every 
file request.

Rudi


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