Have you tried setting the expires parameter of the map:reader definition to some reasonable value? I have recently noticed some similar but not identical behavior trying to download using the resource reader with no expires value.
Geoff Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: Andre Juffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:20 AM > To: cocoon-users > Subject: File downloading with cocoon > > > Hi, > > I am having some trouble with the following. I want users to be able to > download some zip (or any type) files. So, I have put in the sitemap the > following: > > <map:match pattern="course-material/**.zip"> > <map:act type="action-retrieve-lecture-notes"> > <map:read type="resource" src="LectureNotes/{../1}.zip" > mime-type="application/zip" /> > </map:act> > <map:redirect-to uri="../lecture-notes" /> > </map:match> > > The action simply checks if the user is allowed to access the zip files. > And if not, the user is being redirected to a login page > (../lecture-notes). This login form makes use of the same action > (action-retrieve-lecture-notes), which also ensures that the user is > pointed to the appropriate file that is to be downloaded (and this > depends on some login information, including a course id). > > All this works quite nicely, except that the <map:read> does not really > start up a download process. That is, it causes all the steps > necessarily and the user is being asked what to do with the file (save > it, open it, etc) like any other download process, but the file that is > being downloaded has a file size of zero. But the file that is accessed > locally is the correct one: I have checked the cocoon log files. There > is no problem with the file itself (I have placed it into a publically > accessible location served directly by the Apache webserver and had no > problems with downloading the file.) > > So what to do? I was thinking that it is maybe some caching issue. Some > of the files to be downloaded can be fairly large (there is one file of > about 20 Mb). > > I am using cocoon-2.0.4, java 1.4.0_01 and Tomcat 4.0.4. > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > Andre H. Juffer | Phone: +358-8-553 1683 > The Biocenter and | Fax: +358-8-553-1141 > the Dep. of Biochemistry | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of Oulu, Finland | WWW: http://www.biochem.oulu.fi/Biocomputing/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
