about big flv files

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jun 16 17:28:57 CEST 2008


In message <06F9AFC0-24C5-4315-9B22-F7F8EE1913C4 at mosso.com>, Adrian Otto writes
:

>> There is no intrinsic limit on object size in varnish, but it is not
>> particular geared towards such use.  The major stumbling block is that
>> Varnish will fetch the entire file from the backend before starting
>> transmission to the client.
>
>Have you considered allowing a configuration for streaming a file to  
>a client while it's being fetched from the backend server? 

Yes.

Do I have a sponsor for it ?  No.


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