DefaultFileRegion and SslHandler

[이희승 (Trustin Lee)]

On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Norman Maurer wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I plan to use the DefaultFileRegion to speed up transfer of my 
> file-based content (maildir). In one example[1] I saw that it can not be 
> used with SSL. Is this still the case ?
Yes, FileRegion is for zero-copy transfer. To encrypt something we have to load the data into user space which involves memory copy. You have to use the ChunkedWriteHandler instead.
> I'm also concerned about the limitation for NIO only, as we made it 
> plugable to use NIO or OIO. So whats the best thing to make sure to only 
> use it with NIO ? Check the instanceof ServerSocketChannelFactory and 
> only use it if its an instance of NioServerSocketChannelFactory ?
That's a good idea.

HTH

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Trustin Lee (http://gleamynode.net/)

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