If you do have X-SendFile installed make sure your settings for it are
correct as well. I got caught by this the other day too. I had
forgotten to add...
|XSendFile on
XSendFileAllowAbove on
|||to my VirtualHost config.
FYI.
matte - webmaster
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Kirk Haines wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Jeremy Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:35 PM, George Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
sorry if creating a dupe...
I'm trying to download files to authenticated users in my app. I've set
up x_send_file. All seems to be correct to me, however when I try to
download any file, I get a 1-byte long file downloaded.
This only works with a frontend httpd to intercept the X-Sendfile
response header and send the actual file.
Without a frontend httpd, you're seeing the expected result. Use
firebug to verify.
To expand on what Jeremy said, x_send_file just sets an HTTP header,
X-Sendfile, in the response.
It's up to whatever is running in front of your processes to see that
header and then to do something with it.
So, in order to adequately test it, you will have to have _something_
in front of your processes which handle it. Also be aware that only
some web servers implement X-Sendfile (Apache, via mod_xsendfile,
lighttpd natively [it originated with them], and Swiftiply are the
three that come to mind). Litespeed has their own redirect syntax
(which they spin to make it sound better than the others). Nginx also
has it's own approach with x-accel-redirect (which Swiftiply may
support in the future, as well).
So if you are using any one of those mechanisms for delivering static
file downloads, to test it you will have to have a compatible front
end running, and without some (fairly minor) code changes, you are
locked into whatever one you choose to use.
Hope this helps.
Kirk Haines
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