Nearly every modern webserver has optimized file transfers using
sendfile(2).  You're not going to get any better performance by shifting the
burden of this task to your caching proxies.

--Michael

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Sascha Ottolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm certain that it's possible, but am not sure how to do it: I want to
> let my application create "encrypted" URLs, that are valid only for a
> specific amount of time. I guess with the help of embedded C and
> manually constructed hash keys this should be doable. Now I'm wondering
> if may be someone already has done something like this, or as other
> ideas to achieve this?
>
> My idea is basically inspired by a lighttpd module:
> http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs:ModSecDownload
>
> The workflow would be something like
>
> - "decrpyt" incoming URL
> - rewrite URL, extract timestamp
> - if not in range, send 404 (or what seems appropriate)
> - if timestamp is ok, set hash key
> - deliver object from cache or pull from backend
>
>
> Thanks for any pointer,
>
> Sascha
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