Hi Mark, I don't have the experience, just theoretizing here:
DSpace shouldn't be any different from any other web server in respect to serving large files. Storage depends on the filesystem you use, HTTP technically doesn't care about size and Tomcat just passes on the data stream. So the issue boils down to whether it's practical to transport large files via HTTP and what are the alternatives. IMHO the problem is only with HTTP clients which don't have the capability to resume download. Users who don't know how large the files may be would be surprised, but users who expect that would use a download manager (including curl/wget under this umbrella) anyway. So maybe it would make sense to detect the user agent and warn users somehow. > However, I suppose we could have some sort of sftp script linked from some > items with meta data for the files. I didn't understand what you're proposing here. Do you mean that in item metadata you could have a download link to some script? That's definitely possible. But what would the purpose be? And do you intend to have an anonymous SFTP server for the items in addition to HTTP? Regards, ~~helix84 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
