Hi Wim

> From: Wim Dumon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> If the data you want to stream through a WFileResource is in 
> fact a real file on a file system of your embedded system, 
> you can also consider to simply link to it with an anchor 
> (either <a> or a WAnchor). Wt will stream the file 
> asynchronously without consuming large buffers, and it won't 
> occupy a thread for the duration of the file download.
> If you generate the data on the fly, this is of course not possible.

I actually have two scenarios. One is streaming a real file for which your 
suggestion would work. The second is where I want to create and stream a tar 
archive of a directory structure. I want to do this by creating a FIFO in the 
file system (it's linux), start tar: "tar c [dir] > theFIFO &" and then stream 
from the FIFO like it was a regular file. Unfortunately wt refuses to stream 
from the FIFO and gives a 404 instead :( 

cat'ing from the FIFO works without problems.

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Michael Sørensen Loft, Mjølner Informatics A/S

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