[Seaside] Zinc as static file server

[Philippe Marschall]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/12/2012 12:52 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the contribution (again).
>>
>
> You're welcome.  Thanks for doing the bulk of the work.
>
>
>
>> Yes, this is useful, having an expiration time per mime-type seems a bit
>> heavy, but OK.
>>
>
> I figured that since the mimeType had already been figured out in the
> #responseForFileNamed: method to just use it.  I'm happy for any revisions.
>
>
>> BTW, we (or I) definitively need to add If-Modified-Since and 304 Not
>> Modified behavior to  ZnZincStaticServerAdaptor.
>>
>
> OK.  I added that to the version I just uploaded.
>
>
>> And I know that you know, but let me repeat that in production situations
>> you definitively have to let apache or nginx serve the statis files, to take
>> load of Seaside.
>>
>
> Yes definitely.
>
>
>> Your hack in ZnSeasideStaticServerAdaptorDelegate>>#handleRequest: lets
>> Seaside first try and make an error before you consider static file serving,
>> this almost defeats the purpose of not doing it by Seaside itself. Just a
>> hunch, I haven't tested or benchmarked this.
>>
>
> Does Seaside have the ability to serve files from disk without loading them
> into a WAFileLibrary?  I couldn't figure that out, or gave up before trying
> really.  I edit all my CSS and JS in emacs and its a pain to reload after
> saving/committing.  And for my use case the performance is fine.

You can write a request handler that writes on the response stream.

Cheers
Philippe