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Writing a download server

  • Part I: Always stream, never keep fully in memory
  • Part II: headers: Last-Modified, ETag and If-None-Match
  • Part III: headers: Content-length and Range
  • Part IV: Implement HEAD operation (efficiently)
  • Part V: Throttle download speed
  • Part VI: Describe what you send (Content-type, et.al.)