Aaron Cannon wrote:
Hello all. As you may or may not know, Craig Stephenson and greg Newby have been working on a system to create custom CD and DVD images on the fly. I am happy to report that the system gets better and better each time I look at it. You can see the progress at http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/pgiso/ . This system is not ready for the masses, but please feel free to take a look and poke around.
Is it really a good idea to build the ISO images on the server and mail them to the user? Even a lowly CD image comes in at 650 MB, which will expand to 1 GB if base64-encoded for mailing. Who has got the luxury of that big a mailbox? How reliable is the delivery of 1 GB mails? What about DoS attacks on somebody else's mailbox? I'd only build the browse pages on snowy and require that the customer uses jigdo-lite (www.jigdo.org) for download. The browse pages are pretty small so you can cache them all for a week or so. The actual ebook files would come from ibiblio. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org