[Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

[Dario Lopez-Kästen]

Stefan H. Holek wrote:

> Dario,
> 
> The best solution for me always has been to serve such files statically 
> from Apache, bypassing ZServer altogether. In fact I have added support 
> for static URLs to my version of ExtFile 
> <http://zope.org/Members/shh/ExtFile>.
> 
> ZEO clusters will need a comon disk share (SAMBA, NFS) for this to work.

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I am a bit hesitant to revert to filesystem based storage at this point 
- we used to use LocalFS but switched from it in favor of DirectoryStorage.

I am also wondering about the security aspects of bypassing Zope to 
serve files - acess to some of the files we need to serve is restricted 
to particular users with particular permissions, and I cannot clearly 
see how this would be possible to accomplish without Zope's security 
machinery.

So, I am looking for a solution that either utilises Zope+ZServer with 
additional fixes or that replaces ZServer altoghether with something 
better (Apache, Pound, Twisted?). All this assuming of course that 
ZServer is not good at serving large files to many users.

Thanks,

/dario

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Dario Lopez-Kästen, IT Systems & Services Chalmers University of Tech.