On Mar 25, 7:11 pm, Jay Dev <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> The exe file is on another server.
>
OK. I was asking because if on the same server then things like X-Send-
File or X-Accel-Redirect work very nicely. You certainly could use net/
http to get the file and then send the response to the user although
for anything but the smallest of files you'll need to start sending
the data before you have grabbed all of it (because otherwise the user
will get bored or the browser will time you out) and I'm not sure
there's a nice way of doing that in rails.
Fred
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Frederick Cheung wrote:
> > On Mar 25, 6:54 pm, Jay Dev <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> >> Hi Folks,
>
> >> I'm new to Rails and working on a project where after the user logs in
> >> they can click on a link to download an exe file ( say for example the
> >> file is athttp://test.com/test.exe). I want to keep the link to the exe
> >> file hidden. What are the best ways to implement this step.
>
> >> I was thinking about using the redirect to url but I have been getting
> >> an error saying that I cannot use two redirect's in a function.
>
> > redirect won't hide the url
>
> >> Also, I was thinking of using NET:HTTP to use http request but I have no
> >> idea how to implement this.
>
> > You could but it would block the mongrel for the entire time it took
> > to download the file.
>
> > What's not clear from your example is whether this file is on your
> > server or somewhere else.
>
> > Fred
>
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