[Catalyst] Handling slow uploads externally

[Brian Kirkbride]

Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On 4/12/07, Brian Kirkbride <brian.kirkbride at deeperbydesign.com> wrote:
>> Now I'd like to avoid tying up the heavy procs for slow uploads.  Many 
>> suggest
>> to run upload handlers as CGI rather than mod_perl because the 1s 
>> startup time
>> is negligent compared to the time required to upload.  I have tried 
>> this and it
>> works, but it still creates a 60+ MB process to sit around for 2 
>> minutes while a
>> dial up user uploads a huge image.
> 
> Yeah, I was reading that and thinking that you'll probably use more
> memory for CGI, since you still have to run perl but you don't get any
> copy-on-write benefit.  It could be offset by loading as few modules
> as possible into the CGI, but that seems kind of ugly.
> 
> A better solution would be a proxy that buffers uploads.  I thought
> mod_proxy would do this for you.  Are you certain that it doesn't?  If
> so, take a look at the other proxy options out there.
> 
> - Perrin

Perrin,

It doesn't look like mod_proxy, which I am currently using, supports this.  It 
looks like Perlbal does however.  Any other suggestions?  I'd like to avoid 
Squid as it would be overkill for this application.

Thanks!