On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Thomas Nunninger wrote: > > >> I see your problem. However, you should not cache PDF files in > > >> memory anyway, but store them somewhere as PDF files and link to > > >> them. Reading a 100 MB PDF through PHP is overhead in itself, so > > >> you would not want to use Cache here anyway. > > > > > > That's just your opinion on this, and perhaps there's other content > > > for which this does make sense. > > > > I don't think so. It's commen sense in the PHP world to store such > > ammounts of pseudo-static data on disc and let the webserver do what > > he does best: Serve content. Even starting PHP in this case does not > > make sense, since it slows down the whole process significantly. > > In most cases I agree. But what if you need strict permission checking > (e.g. paid content or privacy reasons)? How should the webserver know > about the user and his permissions?
I also still think that we should have this functionality. This is just one use case. regards, Derick -- Components mailing list Components@lists.ez.no http://lists.ez.no/mailman/listinfo/components
