Re: Re: Emergency! Performance downloading big files

Ah I didn't pay attention to the first part. Just gave my typical don't spoonfeed bytes from php rant :) Sent from my iPhone On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:42 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane@colin.guthr.ie> wrote:

'Twas brillig, and Michael Shadle at 01/12/09 23:51 did gyre and gimble:

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:21 PM, James McLean <james.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:

The suggestion from other users of off-loading the PDF downloading to Apache (or another webserver) is a good idea also.

^ I never allow PHP to be [ab]used and kept open to spoonfeed clients with fopen/readfile/etc.

I think there has been some confusion.... The OP wanted a way to *download* the files *from* somewhere, not dish them up to his clients. I think some or the replies were assuming he wanted to have a PHP script as a guardian to protect content from unauthorised users but that is not what he actually said!

in apache there is a "mod_sendfile" module I think. never used it.

The above said, I didn't know about this module and it looks rather useful, so thanks for pointing it out :D Here is the first Google result I found on this issue which explains it a bit. http://codeutopia.net/blog/2009/03/06/sending-files-better-apache-mod_xsendfile-and-php/ Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php