I had a quick look through lib/mongrel/camping.rb and it looks like there is some code in the camping handler in order to handle X-Senfile.
The rails handler does not have the same code, so that's probably why you are seeing the different results. Scott Brooks On Thursday 25 January 2007 10:53 am, Bruno Celeste wrote: > Thank you Scott. > > I'm accessing mongrel directly but I thought that mongrel can use > X-Sendfile without needing another webserver. > > Parkplace (a camping app) uses X-Sendfile via mongrel, so I don't > understand. Is it possible to do the same thing with rails? > > On 1/25/07, Scott Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 25 January 2007 4:38 am, Bruno Celeste wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > > I try to use the "X-Sendfile" header, but it doesn't work as expected. > > > > > > In my controller: > > > > > > path = "/home/bruno/file.tar.gz" > > > headers['X-Sendfile'] = path > > > headers['Content-Type'] = "application/octet-stream" > > > headers['Content-Length'] = File.size(path) > > > render :nothing => true > > > > > > When I request the file, nothing is shown, just a white page. If I do > > > a HEAD request: > > > > > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > > > Connection: close > > > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:22:19 GMT > > > Status: 200 OK > > > X-Sendfile: /home/bruno/file.tar.gz > > > Cache-Control: no-cache > > > Server: Mongrel 1.0.1 > > > Content-Type: application/force-download; charset=utf-8 > > > Content-Length: 1 > > > > > > The weird thing is the content-length is bad and I think mongrel > > > should not show the X-Sendfile header. I also tried to add the > > > content-disposition header but didn't resolve the problem. > > > > > > I'm using edge rails and the latest mongrel (I deleted older mongrels) > > > > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > X-Sendfile is handled by Apache, or Lighty, etc. If you are just > > accessing mongrel directly, then what you are seeing is correct. If you > > are accessing mongrel via apache, or some other webserver, then it's > > handling of X-Sendfile is not setup properly. > > > > Scott Brooks > > _______________________________________________ > > Mongrel-users mailing list > > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
