[Zope] how to download big files using zope?

[Johan Carlsson [Torped]]

At 08:44 2002-10-06 +0200, Yuppie said:
>Andy McKay wrote:
>>Google for ExtFile.
>>--
>>   Andy McKay
>>   www.agmweb.ca
>>----- Original Message -----
>>>Is there a way to just pass the file through? Without loading it in a=20
>>>string or in the ZODB?
>
>Thanks! But I had a look at the source of ExtFile:
>
>It copies the file into StringIO(). That means it *does* load the complete=
=20
>file into memory before you can download it.
>
>Any other hints?
>Yuppie

Hi Yuppie,
I've made a hack of the LocalFS product that can stream objects
from the filesystem instead of copy through StringIO.

I have put it on zope.org:
http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/StreamingFS/StreamingFS.zip

Most other products I've looked at does this copy operation.

Regards,
Johan Carlsson




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