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Re: Download Large Files Directly

Alexander Kolesen
April 05, 2011 12:20PM
> Hy @ All,
>
> Is there an Option in nginx to set a limit for the download filesize, so
> that the requested file will be downloaded from the proxied server
> (apache) directly?
>
> Example:
>
> testfile.bin over 10 MB, will send directly to apache
>
> Client --> Apache
>
> testfile.bin under 10 MB, will send to nginx cache and then to apache
>
> Client --> nginx Cache --> Apache
>
> Any Solutions?
>

You can implement the following solution:
- any request passes to the Apache
- probe the file size
- if size over 10MB - serve it like you want
- if under - send X-Accel-Redirect response to nginx

http://wiki.nginx.org/XSendfile


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Download Large Files Directly

Maik Unger April 05, 2011 11:38AM

Re: Download Large Files Directly

Alexander Kolesen April 05, 2011 12:20PM

Re: Download Large Files Directly

Maik Unger April 05, 2011 01:58PM



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