Send files faster with XSendFile

Narnach posted a link to john.guen.in and tagged it with ruby, rails, apache, lighttpd, XSendFile, download, webserver

Blog post about upgrading from Ruby on Rails' send_file (which is a bit broken behind mongrel) to Apache or Lighttpd's mod_xsendfile, which uses a HTTP header to signal your webserver to handle the file download by itself. This is a good way to let apache serve files outside of your DocumentRoot.