Alternately you could hand it off to the web server which is probably a better more elegant solution. http://wiki.nginx.org/X-accel http://wiki.nginx.org/X-ac

Alternately you could hand it off to the web server which is probably a better more elegant solution. http://wiki.nginx.org/X-accel http://wiki.nginx.org/X-accel and mod_zip for instance. Why do people keep reinventing the wheel, thinking node is the be all and end all when this is nothing new at all?