At 12:09 PM -0800 11/21/07, Ed Swierk wrote: >On 11/21/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm new to mod_python, but it is documented to be able to do /anything/ >> that could be a response from Apache. If the handler were to fetch the >> data itself it could write a local file and also return the data to the >> client, by calling urlopen() and then read(), write(), and req.write() >> repeatedly. I don't know if the reads and writes will overlap. > >I just implemented this in InstantMirror. Way to go! >The complication I feared >was handling byte range requests properly. But I don't handle them at >all (i.e. they get treated as full file requests), and yum/urllib >doesn't complain. Hmm. I expect that will affect resuming downloads. Hopefully somebody who knows more about serving httpd will speak up. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
