Re: InstantMirror initial source repo
On 11/21/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson(a)georgeanelson.com> wrote:
I'm new to mod_python, but it is documented to be able to do
/anything/
that could be a response from Apache. If the handler were to fetch the
data itself it could write a local file and also return the data to the
client, by calling urlopen() and then read(), write(), and req.write()
repeatedly. I don't know if the reads and writes will overlap.
I just implemented this in InstantMirror. The complication I feared
was handling byte range requests properly. But I don't handle them at
all (i.e. they get treated as full file requests), and yum/urllib
doesn't complain.
--Ed