X-Sendfile Header

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:58:24PM -0800, Alex Egg wrote:

> Does nginx support the concept of the X-Sendfile header described here:
> 
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoSendFilesFast
> 
> ???
> 
> My problem is that I'm sending a file to an iphone with rails
> (send_file) but I guess mongrel doesn't support byte-range requests.
> But I know nginx does...

nginx supports more general concept - X-Accel-Redirect:
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxXSendfile


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