[web-devel] Content-Length on sendFile

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Greg,

> I apologize for the confusing terminology. I am not differentiating between
> sending a static file with sendfile and a streaming response. I
> am differentiating between 2 different use cases for sending static files
> (with sendfile). For all of my web applications, I know what all the static
> files are and they will never change until I deploy another web application.
> That means I can stat the files once when the application is deployed and keep
> that information in memory. So I already have the file length information to
> include in the header, even though I don't do a file stat when the file is
> requested. wai-app-static and yesod-static supports these techniques.

Thanks. I think I understand. :)

So, do you support to *not* change the API (apps should add CL: by
themselves)?

--Kazu