blazar, i want to point out that this method only tells the server what file you want- that's all!

Your mention of a symlink is very interesting, it's a thought i had chewed on and i solved in another way thanks to the help of this posting: at job help

What i had thought of.. was to create a temporary sym link to a file, an at job would delete the sym link in x time..

I was very lucky to get some incredibly useful thoughts on that link up there.. and ended up streaming the thing .. much better. (the original doc resides outside of http accessible realm).

Take a look at the streamer code</a