I have done cfcontent style download using PHP years ago. I am not sure it this will help you solve your problem, but it may be a viable alternative. I got the idea from working with OSCommerce http://oscommerce.org/
OSCommerce has a module that allow ppl buy and DL software and has a working example in the source. Barney's idea is a good one too. I am currently investigating that method myself. HTH, G On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:50 PM, George Abraham < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > CFMX 7 Enterprise on IIS and Win 2003. Relatively medium traffic website, > probably about 200 or so downloads a day, ranging from 1MB to 1GB or so. > This is expected to double every 3 months or so. > > I read that cfcontent utilizes a single thread for the duration of a file > download. I also read Ben Nadel's post here: > http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:1226.view on sidestepping some > of > that. There was a bit of discussion about using x-sendfile with lighthttpd > and Apache, but I don't have that option since I am condemned to IIS. > > The question is: are there any other alternatives? I could initialize > another instance and make it handle only the download requests, but can't > really guess at the long-term viability of that. > > Thanks, > George > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307105 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
