9 messages in ru.sysoev.nginxRe: Serving executables over web
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matt daviesNov 7, 2008 3:58 am 
matt daviesNov 7, 2008 4:23 am 
matt daviesNov 7, 2008 4:43 am 
RoxisNov 7, 2008 4:50 am 
matt daviesNov 7, 2008 5:25 am 
matt daviesNov 7, 2008 7:25 am 
Maxim DouninNov 7, 2008 7:49 am 
matt daviesNov 7, 2008 8:18 am 
Phillip B OldhamNov 7, 2008 8:28 am 
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Subject:Re: Serving executables over webActions...
From:Maxim Dounin (mdou@mdounin.ru)
Date:Nov 7, 2008 7:49:24 am
List:ru.sysoev.nginx

Hello!

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:26:13PM +0000, matt davies wrote:

:-)

I've just worked out that download speed has absolutely nothing to do with client_max_body_size as Roxis correctly pointed out. What was happening my end was that I had already successfully downloaded the exe once, so the next download of the same file was obviously much quicker :-)

The PDF I put on the site of roughly the same size was a very fast download straight away, so I'm guessing it's something to do with the mime types and how the PDF file was handled compared to the EXE file.

No clue as to what is happening now

Just a guess: antivirus on server/client/firewall?

Can anyone point me at any documentation on how nginx handles downloading files?

It's written mostly in C language, you should have it with nginx itself. :)

Maxim Dounin