> If you need to auth the images then check out some of the > auth-before-redirect modules available for various web servers.
I think Danga's Perlbal was made for just this purpose. Evan On Nov 7, 2007 12:01 PM, Zed A. Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:34:25 +1100 > Dave Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Kirk, > > > > I'm wondering if we're being hit by this issue in our application. We > > generate a lot of thumbnails on the fly and use send_file to transfer > > the data back to the browsers. > > > > Checking the rails docks for send_file it indicates, that unless you > > use the option :stream => false, the file will be read into a 4096 > > byte buffer and streamed to the client. > > > > > > http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Streaming.html#M000093 > > > > Is this a bug in send_file? > > You souldn't use send_file at all really, because this streams the full file > into a StringIO so that mongrel can then send the StringIO outside the rails > lock, and because rails is inconsistent in how it sends headers and the body. > > You should be using either x-sendfile or simply redirect to the real image. > If you need to auth the images then check out some of the > auth-before-redirect modules available for various web servers. > > -- > Zed A. Shaw > - Hate: http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/ > - Good: http://www.zedshaw.com/ > - Evil: http://yearofevil.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Evan Weaver Cloudburst, LLC _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
