[Catalyst] File downloads - Plugin?

[Sebastian Riedel]

Am 11.08.2005 um 22:03 schrieb Matt S Trout:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:27:29PM +0100, Toby Corkindale wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm in a position where I'd like to serve file downloads, out of  
>> database
>> BLOBs, via Catalyst.
>>
>> These files are potentially very large, and so I would rather not  
>> suck the
>> entire lot of data out of the DB and into Catalyst's $c->response- 
>> >output()
>> variable. I'd rather have some kind of solution whereby I pass a
>> IO::Handle, and then at output time this is used to write directly  
>> out to
>> Apache.
>>
>> Is there any plugin that will help me here, or would I need to  
>> write this
>> myself?
>>
>
> I think the refactor/ branch in svn and the HTTP-Body package (also  
> in svn)
> are working towards this ability but not quite here yet. Maybe you  
> could have
> a go at helping out with that.

Well, we are working on uploads actually, handles for output were  
planned for a long time but so far we havn't agreed on how to  
implement them (without breaking backwards compatibility).


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sebastian