[mod_python] Download authorisation

Wouter van Marle wouter at squirrel-systems.com
Wed Jun 22 03:51:09 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 01:18 -0400, jarrod roberson wrote:
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> On 6/17/05, Wouter van Marle <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         I've a problem that I'm struggling with: how to allow a
>         certain user a download, so that the user can download it once
>         and only once? The authorisation part I have; what I'm
>         struggling with is how to open the download for that specific
>         file to the user (not too hard), and mainly how to check
>         whether the file has been downloaded completely. Taking into
>         account that a user may only be able to download it partly
>         now, and has to resume later.
>         I can't find anything with google... can't think of a specific
>         enough query.
>         
>         Wouter.
> 
> 
> you could try just write a cleanup handler that deleted the file when
> the download was completed 200 OK.

The clean-up handler is the easy part :)
How to capture such a 200 OK message?

> If you want to allow ranged gets for partial downloads you will have
> to store what parts the person has downloaded somewhere in a file and
> update that and check for completion in a cleanup handler somewhere.

No partial downloads other than later resumes - and as I understand from
Jim Gallacher the client should request this, so no need to store
progress info on my side.

Wouter.

> 
> this is just a data tracking problem, if you have a single server this
> is easy to solve, if you have a cluster of servers it gets more
> complicated very quicklly
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> -- 
> If you don't know what you want, you probably need a nap.



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