Thanks for the help! I was successful in getting the upload/download method to work via the web2py-way. I'll investigate an Apache method if I notice my streaming videos hanging.
Cheers! JimK On Feb 14, 2:38 pm, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: > you need to choose if you want web2py to serve files or your webserver. > For the "web2py-way", ross and anthony replied to your question pretty well. > > If you go with the "webserver" idea (i.e. you have a lot of files, or some > large files and you don't want to "stall" web2py threads serving the > files), there are some nice implementation of "expiring links" > > For nginx there is the httpsecurelink module, cherokee has built-in the > "hidden downloads" handler, lighttpd has mod_secdownload, etc. > > Implementations are pretty simple, but achieve a different goal : render > links that are valid for a certain amount of time.
