Re: [naviserver-devel] Large file upload dilemma

[Vasiljevic Z. <zv...@ar...>]

On 23.10.2007, at 21:26, Vlad Seryakov wrote:

> We are building web site which will accept uploads of very big files,
> 1-2GB is average. Spooler works fine but the problem comes after the
> upload. With big number of users, all my virtual memory will be
> exhausted very quickly by mmap, and after the upload i need to copy
> those files somewhere because they are temp and deleted already.
>
> This makes the whole spooling thing useless by its own, i think it  
> needs
> to be extended so i can somehow tell that those urls needs to go into
> normal files, not mmaped without parsing multipart-data at all, for  
> such
> big files, it is better to do it offline than on the web server.

Your dilemma ist: how to specifiy that server should NOT preparse
the uploaded multipart-data?