[Zope-dev] Streaming large files

Thilo Staebler staebler at virtualfx.de
Fri Jul 9 11:32:05 EDT 2004


thanks a lot for your answeres!
I think switching to Zope 2.7.1 and using IStreamIterators did the job 
for me :-)


thilo

Thilo Staebler wrote:

> hi!
> I have to stream large mpeg-files over http with range support. this 
> works quite nice until the client seeks in the (media)player and the 
> files aren't tooooo large, because zope caches the whole file...
> ...so each seek means streaming the whole file from the requested 
> position till end *g*
> -> my RESPONSE object doesn't even know, that the player has seeked e.g. 
> back to the beginning...
> is there a way to bypass the zope caching? and how do I know if the 
> player has disconnected, so I can stop streaming?
> 
> 
> thanks in advance
> thilo
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