I am trying to make my Rails app support resuming of downloads, since we serve quite large files from there. I found a piece of middleware to do this long ago, but I cant find it again. Any tips/tricks on how to pull it off?
Thanks! :)
This was how I did it:
response.header["Accept-Ranges"] = "bytes"
send_file product.pack.path, :type => product.pack_content_type, :x_sendfile=>true
I asked our server guy to set up mod_xsendfile, I don't know how to set it myself.
Tutorial here: http://www.devsource.com/c/a/Techniques/Resumable-File-Downloads-with-ASPNet/2/
Read about content-length here: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.13
About streaming is available here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Streaming.html