Nick, Thanks for your reply. Looks like I will have to cache the data somewhere.
Subra On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2008 14:17:54 -0400 > "Subra A Narayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now if the MD5 checksum passes and now I want to read the data again, > > how would i do it? I cannot use the above function again, right? > > 'ap_should_client_block' has already told the client once to send the > > entire data once. > > You need to save the data somewhere. With big uploads like that, > it would be ridiculous for either apache or your app to try and > buffer them in memory. > > > Reading the data once, computing the MD5, caching it and then reusing > > the cached data if the checksum passes is one option, but I dont want > > to do that for a variety of reasons. > > So where do you suppose all that data will be squirreled away > between computing md5 and using it the second time? > > -- > Nick Kew > > Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book > http://www.apachetutor.org/ >
