Hello, by the way, if anyone uses Nginx, there's nearly the same with
X-Accel-redirect headers http://wiki.nginx.org/XSendfile Romain On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Bart van Wissen <bartvanwis...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 11 mei, 11:24, David Buchmann <david.buchm...@liip.ch> wrote: > > hi, > > > > i have binary content that i have to deliver to the client. what is the > > right way to do it? i found two solutions, but neither seems really good. > > > > //in my controller, i get a binary stream (its stored in the database) > > > > $picture = $this->method_that_returns_resource_stream(); > > > > // i can just use plain php and dump and die. not nice. > > header('Content-Type: image/jpeg'); > > fpassthru($picture); > > die; > > > > /* > > or i can use a response, but then i have to read the stream into memory, > > which is unefficient. > > */ > > > > $response = new Response(stream_get_contents($picture)); > > $response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'image/jpeg'); > > return $response; > > > > You should take a look at mod_xsendfile (assuming you're using > apache). > > https://tn123.org/mod_xsendfile/ > > You can then let apache take care of actually sending the file. > All you have to do is send a response-header like this: > > X-Sendfile: /path/to/the/file > > The module will intercept this header and send the file. > > > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en > -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en
