Bigger WebFile takes longer to start downloading

Targets Web
1

I have a number of WE apps that download files via WebFile and .ShowURL and they work fine when run as a CGI at any size (10-100 MB) when both starting to download (a few seconds at most) and full download time.

If I take that same app and run is as a standalone WE app, then try to download a large file (e.g. 75 Mb), it can take over a minute before it BEGINS to download. Once it begins the speed is OK. Is this a bug or is there a workaround? Is Apache making the CGI more responsive? Is it loading the file into memory first?

2

By default WebFile.UseCompression it is True.
Setting this property to false should solve this delay.

Regards.

3

In general you should set UseCompression to false for compressed image files (JPEG; PNG), movie (mp4, mpg, avi) or archive files (zip).