> From: Stuart Roebuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I really need to get byte range support working in Cocoon 2 with the > ResourceReader as it appears that some audio players just will not > accept MP3 files if the server does not provide byte-range support (e.g. > Windows Media Player) even after I patched Cocoon 2.0.2 to no longer > advertise byte-range support (e.g. change the Accept-Ranges:bytes header > to Accept-Ranges:none). I have a site which is using Cocoon based access > control mechanisms to deliver the files so I can't easily serve the > files from a non-Cocoon based server. > > I would appreciate some advice on how best to tackle this... > > I presume that I could try adding support directly into ResourceReader, > but I would have to disable the CachingStreamPipeline or add the range > data into the cache key - otherwise a partial output would be cached > rather than the whole file. However, adding the range to the cache key > might significantly reduce the hit rate and rapidly fill the cache. > > The more favorable approach, assuming that I'm on the write track, would > be to add support to the Pipeline so that the generator (the > ResourceReader in this case) would act as normal, and the > CachingOutputStream would cache the entire Resource, but the > CachingStreamPipeline and StreamPipeline would both be altered to return > only the request byte ranges. > > Do any of these suggestions seem sensible or is this more complex than > I'm imagining? > > (I would prefer to change 2.0.2 rather than move the live site to a more > recent non-release version.)
If you want to stay with 2.0.x, which is totally understandable... I would suggest to create ByterangeResourceReader which will advertise and implement byte range support, and will return 0 in getLastModified() to disable caching. Vadim > Thanks, > > Stuart. > > > Public Key - 1024D/88DD65AF 2001-11-23 Stuart Roebuck (Adolos) > Key fingerprint = 89D9 E405 F8B1 9B22 0FA2 F2C1 9E57 5AB1 88DD 65AF > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > Stuart Roebuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Architect Java, XML, MacOS X, XP, > etc. > ADOLOS <http://www.adolos.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
