The Apache module has a send_fd() method which is nice if you are going to send the entire file, but when you want to send a range (and this is possible under HTTP/1.1 RFC 2068),then you can't do it. So I wrote the following method, but mod_perl is balking at my use of my variables in the scope which encloses the subroutine.

what is the best way to fix this? 

sub Apache::send_range {

  my ($r,$fh, $offset, $end) = @_;

  seek($fh,$offset,0);

  my $buf;
  my $bufsiz=4096;
  my $current_position = $offset;

  sub read_size {
    my $amount_to_go = ($end - $current_position);
    if ($amount_to_go <= $bufsiz) {
      $bufsiz;
    } else {
      $amount_to_go;
    }
  }

  while (read($fh,$buf,read_size)) {
    $current_position += read_size;
    $r->print($buf);
  }


}

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In reply to mod_perl: variable $end will not stay shared (nested subroutines problem) by princepawn

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