On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 18:04 +0800, Foo JH wrote:
> Clinton's approach may be better (with PerlAccessHandler). Try that
> approach first...
>
> Basically to return a file content over there's not much work to be done:
...although, from the problem set that has been described, there is no
reason to replace what Apache already does.
> 1. Set the content mime type to octet/ application
> 2. open a file for reading as you normally would - via the open() and
> close() functions
> 3. convert to base64 and send it over
Why are you converting to base64?
All you need to do (assuming mod_perl2) is:
- set the content-type (to whatever file type you are sending)
- use $r->sendfile('filename')
See
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/RequestIO.html#C_sendfile_
Clint
