Hi Bruce,
I'm just guessing, but this sounds much like reusing or double using of Oracle
db handles, context handles or statement handles.
You have to have a look at the bookkeeping of the handles per request. Also
forking of the childs may byte you.
You must ensure that db handles are ONLY ope
So I’ve built a site using mod_perl in CGI mode, with DBI and Oracle as my
database back end.
Everything works fine for a while but then I get intermittent weird errors that
start happening for every page load, which is resulting in non-functional pages
and error messages “Something happened co
1. Streaming in chunks has nothing to do with security - you should have
proper authentication and authorization layer wrapping these requests.
2. Handling chunks and large files are things which apache has perfected
and we usually let apache do the nitty gritty.
After all the validations are
You could put the files behind Nginx and use your mod_perl web app as an
external authentication service. I've never done it but it doesn't look too
hard.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019, 12:25 PM John Dunlap wrote:
> In Java servlets, I can stream a file back to the browser one chunk at a
> time. This has
One fairly straight-forward approach would be to write a script that
serves as the path for downloads, then have it parse the filename to
use as a key in determining which content to send to the user. (The
AcceptPathInfo directive could be helpful for this, especially if you
want to th
In Java servlets, I can stream a file back to the browser one chunk at a
time. This has 2 benefits which interest me.
1) Files can be stored outside the web root so users cannot download them
unless they are logged in, even if they know the path.
2) Large files can be streamed back to the client wi
