The AutoSendfile Mode

The AutoSendfile mode basically turns grizzly-sendfile into a regular webserver which listens on a specified URI prefix. When a request with this prefix arrives, grizzly-sendfile replies with a file which path matches the request URI.

Let's say that grizzly-sendfile is running in a server on port 8080 and is configure with these two options:

 com.igorminar.grizzlysendfile.AutoSendfileUriPrefix=/sendfile/
 com.igorminar.grizzlysendfile.AutoSendfileFileDir=/var/www/large-files/

Then wget http://host:8080/sendfile/some-file.tgz will result in /var/www/large-files/some-file.tgz to be served.

The advantages of this feature are:

• you can let grizzly-sendfile serve static files instead of using grizzly for this purpose and benefit from grizzly-sendfile's performance, scalability, plugins, jmx monitoring capabilities, etc
• you can build a high performance webserver with grizzly by using only a few lines of code
• you can shave off a few milliseconds from the request initiation time that would otherwise be wasted in grizzly's adapters