Re: [Zope] problems with zope handling large download files

Albert Ting writes:

I'm currently using zope 2.3.3, apache 1.3.20, and fastcgi. However, I'm trying to support large http transfers, protected via a acl_user (passwords, expiration, etc.). Each download/transfer could be 20-50mb. I've tried using LocalFS as well as streaming out the data using RESPONSE.write().

However, it appears FCGIServer buffers the *entire* file before sending it out to the apache mod_fastcgi. This won't work for me, as it's a huge memory hog, plus there's a noticeable delay before the buffer is flushed out to apache. There are alternatives to FastCGI, e.g. "mod_proxy".

Please search Zope.org (or the mailing list archives) for lots of detailes. Dieter