[ic] Soft goods file download

[Kevin Walsh]

Stefan Hornburg [racke at linuxia.de] wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:44:56 -0400 "Jason Korkin" <jkorkin at korksoft.com> wrote:
> > Having a little performance issue with regards to softgoods downloads.
> > 
> > We're trying to send our "large" files -- e.g. 70 - 200MB in size but
> > they are taking forever to begin streaming as a download.  I am
> > assuming that the $Tag->file() is actually loading the entire file into
> > memory before streaming the data out...? 
> > 
> > I'm using the following Perl/ITL:
> > 
> > [snip: Perl code]
> > 
> > Any ideas on how I can drastically improve performance?
> >
> Let Apache handle the download or write a global usertag which
> sends out the file in pieces with Perl read functions.
> 
The [enable-downloads] UserTag can be found on this page:

    http://www.interchange.rtfm.info/downloads/usertags/index.html

It probably still works unchanged.  If not then it should only require
minor tweaks to get it going.

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