Hi Alex, Check out the x_send_file plugin. When you use this to send a file, it just sends the location on disk to the web-server (in a special HTTP header).
The webserver then looks up the file + streams it down to the client. I've noticed a huge speed boost after switching to x_send_file. Since you observed that files sent by nginx work on your iPhone, this would allow nginx to do the heavy lifting for you. I know that Lighttpd + Apache support X-Send-File, although I'm not sure about nginx. Hope this helps, Pete On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Alex Egg wrote: > I'm trying to sent a file to the iphone (which requires byte-range > request support) using the rails send_file method. However, this > fails, I think because of mongrel. I think so because if I send the > iphone a file handled by nginx, it plays it fine. But then when I > serve the file with rails the iphone can't play it. > > Any ideas? > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > 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
