[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #990: Web gateway should avoid caching plaintext of downloads

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#990: Web gateway should avoid caching plaintext of downloads
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 Reporter:  jsgf                                             |           Owner:  nobody
     Type:  defect                                           |          Status:  new   
 Priority:  major                                            |       Milestone:  1.7.0 
Component:  code-frontend                                    |         Version:  1.6.0 
 Keywords:  confidentiality download cache webapi sftp ftpd  |   Launchpad_bug:        
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Comment(by zooko):

 Replying to [comment:6 jsgf]:
 > Replying to [comment:5 zooko]:
 > > My favorite solution to this would be to implement #320 (add streaming
 (on-line) upload to HTTP interface) so that the gateway doesn't use the
 disk at all. #320 would offer great improvements, IMO, in performance and
 flexibility.
 >
 > However, in this case we're talking about cache files for *downloading*.
 When you do a byte-range GET request, you lose streaming downloads.

 Oh, right, *downloads* when you are doing a range-request. My favorite
 solution to that is #798 (improve random-access download to
 retrieve/decrypt less data) so that the web gateway downloads only the
 segments needed to satisfy your range request and just keeps them in RAM
 until it has satsified you.

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Ticket URL: <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/990#comment:9>
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