Re: [jetty-users] Jetty 9 as a Front-end Server

["Shane Curless" <shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me see if I can explain it a bit better...

- User logs into our Information Management System.
- User wants to download a file. The meta-information is store in a
database, and the physical file is stored in a private directory on the
server, the name of which is generated from the File ID and Revision ID.
This physical, on-disk file name and path should never be seen by the
client.
- The users is directed to a URL, /files/(base64-encoded identifier), which
via URL rewriting is handled by a CFML page. 
- The CFML page decodes the identifier, authenticates the session, and if
all is well, builds a path to the physical file.
- The CFML page sets the response header "X-Accel-Redirect" to this path.

At this point, Railo is done processing and control is returned to the
servlet container.

- Nginx intercepts this response header, and responds to the browser with
the content of the file.
This is the part that I want Jetty to do, without having to make the path
publically available.

-----Original Message-----
From: jetty-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jetty-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simone Bordet
Sent: June-10-13 2:05 PM
To: JETTY user mailing list
Subject: Re: [jetty-users] Jetty 9 as a Front-end Server

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Shane Curless <shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by mapping to DefaultServlet.. I don't want 
> these files to be directly available to the public. And I need to use 
> Content-Disposition to output the real filename stored in a database.

Well then you have to be more precise in your use case.
I am not familiar with Railo, nginx, <cfheader> or whatever you're doing.
I know Jetty can serve content asynchronously via direct buffers, and I
believe what you have tersely described in your emails, if I understood it
correctly, is doable in Jetty.

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