Re: [Zope-dev] Serving large files

Sidnei da Silva wrote at 2006-9-17 16:09 -0300:

... c) If you use RESPONSE.write() you can break other applications. ExternalEditor comes to mind.

If you know the size and set it in the "Content-Length" response header, I cannot see a reason why it should break some applications.

... I would like to be able to return an iterator that can read from the ZODB.

Give the iterator a new ZODB (read only) connection; close it when the iterator comes to its end. -- Dieter