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• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Jul 2, 2012 at 11:57 AM

  @Eric, THanks, I've contacted Helicon & received this reply; The bad news is that x-sendfile will not probably work with ColdFusion. The problem is ColdFusion is known to break normal IIS request processing sequence, causing all other modules not to function after ColdFusion module. If... read more »

• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Jul 1, 2012 at 11:24 AM

  The #1 design goal of the site was to prevent links from being shared - after all it's government. I crashed the site trying to implement the mod_xsendfile last night, so back to the beginning. I am hoping that the customer goes with an FTP account for each user and we push the file to their acc... read more »

• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Jun 30, 2012 at 9:35 PM

  @Jay,@Eric I've followed the 2008 single site manual installation and updated the web.config file (2) and copied the httpd.conf from program files/helicon/Ape to my site in a new folder /Helicon (3). What is missing is step (1) - there doesn't seem to be a Helicon.ape.dll from the Heli... read more »

• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Jun 27, 2012 at 9:31 AM

  @David, I've got an IIS server on a Win 2008 box and although I have successfully installed Helicon Ape - I don't understand the next step manual installation code like where my site's /Bin folder is or where & what to put in a web.config file or where the /Helicon/httpd.conf file is to... read more »

• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Jun 26, 2012 at 9:18 PM

  I'm maintaining a site that manages HD video promoting tourism that recently added some big files 1 - 5 GB and I tried this method which works very well for files up to 1GB (the same limitation as using <CFcontent...>) The download proceeds very will until I see it hang at 1,021 MB (... read more »