On Fri 05 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to generate a data file which should be downloaded by clients.
> Rather than generate this file and put it in a web dir and tell
> clients to download it, is there any way to generate the content
> dynamicly and put it to cients? I mean I don't want to generate the
> temporary file.
Plenty.
For example in your httpd.conf
<Location /download>
SetHandler modperl
PerlResponseHandler "sub { \
use Apache2::RequestRec (); \
use Apache2::RequestIO (); \
use Apache2::Connection (); \
$_[0]->content_type('application/octet-stream'); \
until($_[0]->connection->aborted) { \
$_[0]->print(rand); \
} \
return 0; \
}"
</Location>
Now restart your server and then
curl -v http://server/download
And you'll get never ending randomness.
You can also write a little shell script and use it via mod_cgi:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the shell script
#!/bin/bash
echo Content-Type: application/octet-stream
echo
cat /dev/urandom
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< end of shell script
Now fetch the Apache docs and configure your server to execute the
script as CGI program.
Remember it is not necessarily faster to send dynamic content this way.
Sometimes it is faster to write a temporary file sometime before the
response phase and let the default handler send it. If you decide to
send the content on the fly try to figure out the content length and
set the Content-Length header. This can also improve your performance.
Torsten
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