Re: Emergency! Performance downloading big files
| From: | Ashley Sheridan | Date: | Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:55:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Emergency! Performance downloading big files | ||
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On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 14:51 -0800, Brian Dunning wrote:
> Oops, it's several hundred per hour, several thousand per day. Sorry for the accidental
> superlative.
>
> > I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs 24x7,
> > several thousand per hour, all between a few hundred K and about 50 MB.
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Why not put the files behind a secured directory. Apache will handle
that, so PHP needs not be involved. Once logged in, they can download
loads without it being asked for again.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk