Support Nginx X-Accel-Redirect header #295

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Jef Roosens · 2022-11-06T11:15:31Z

Jef Roosens commented

2022-11-06 11:15:31 +00:00

Nginx can serve auth-protected files for you when providing this header (docs.

My idea right now is to add a configuration option that would replace Vieter's file serving code with a dummy response that simply sends this header. Nginx would then be responsible for properly serving the files (much faster than Vieter I reckon).

I might be able to add this as a storage_type, with the default value being local & the option being local_nginx_x_accel or something like that.

Nginx can serve auth-protected files for you when providing this header ([docs](https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/x-accel/). My idea right now is to add a configuration option that would replace Vieter's file serving code with a dummy response that simply sends this header. Nginx would then be responsible for properly serving the files (much faster than Vieter I reckon). I might be able to add this as a `storage_type`, with the default value being `local` & the option being `local_nginx_x_accel` or something like that.

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Jef Roosens commented

2022-11-06 11:16:49 +00:00

Poster

The abstraction required for this could perhaps later be used to support other storage backends (I'd like to use S3 storage myself at some point if possible).

Jef Roosens removed this from the 0.5.0 milestone 2022-11-07 21:01:22 +00:00

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