On 28 Jul 2009, at 14:42, John SJ Anderson wrote:
$WORK-mate is working on a Cat app that (among other things) allows authenticated users to download from a set of static files. He's wondering what the best way is to set things up so that the Cat app can handle the authentication/authorization parts of things but then hand the static file serving part off to Apache. Thanks for any help/hints. john.
Largely depends on what webserver you are using. Lighttpd has X- LIGHTTPD-Sendfile (or something similarly named) nginx has something like X-Accel-Redirect which does the same (and can do more.) Both of these tell the webserver to serve static content from a file. Hit google for these env vars to find out how they work
There's an apache module which will do the same as the lighttpd one http://tn123.ath.cx/mod_xsendfile/ Never used it mind.
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