xsendfile

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I have an older application I wrote that manages our Extension publications. Some of them are for internal use only (e.g., the editable InDesign files). I was using Coldfusion to serve the files after verifying that the user had permission to view. For some reason, a recent change (maybe to CF or Apache) caused this to really bog down the server - had to restart CF every few hours. In my search for a solution, I discovered xsendfile - an Apache module that allows me to use headers to instruct Apache to serve a file, even if it isn't normally web accessible. I'm very happy!

Originally posted to linkblog July 8, 2014