Re: AWS applications and domain hosting

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> writes:

> I wasn't aware of the AWS.Response.File function.  Does this it stream
> the file?  

No this routine does not stream the file but it does not read all the file in
memory. It reads bit of it at a time and send it over. See the
AWS.Net.Buffered.

> Or do you have to load it into memory first?  If AWS knows
> how to stream files, my point about handing out files is clearly not
> valid.

It knows too. See AWS.Resources.Streams.Disk, AWS.Resources.Streams.Disk_Once,
AWS.Resources.Streams.Memory, AWS.Resources.Streams.Memory,
AWS.Resources.Streams.Memory.Zlib. Is that enough ?

A Streams.Memory read/create byte directly from memory. Disk is obvious,
Disk_Once read the file and then delete it (useful when sending over a file
created from the user for example, you really want to delete it when sent).

It is also possible to create your own stream method by deriving from
AWS.Resources.Streams...

And there is much much more ! Be sure to read the manual :)

> How about handling of content negotiation?  Can AWS also do that for
> me?  (yes, I _could_ read the manual) Or will I get the pleasure of
> implementing that myself?

Don't know what you are calling "content negotiation" ?

Pascal.

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