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@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ where ``/up`` is whatever you’ve configured as ``FHOST_STORAGE_PATH``. For all other servers, set ``FHOST_USE_X_ACCEL_REDIRECT`` to ``False`` and ``USE_X_SENDFILE`` to ``True``, assuming your server supports this. -Otherwise, Flask will serve the file with chunked encoding, which sucks and -should be avoided at all costs. +Otherwise, Flask will serve the file with chunked encoding, which has several +downsides, one of them being that range requests will not work. This is a +problem for example when streaming media files: It won’t be possible to seek, +and some ISOBMFF (MP4) files will not play at all. To make files expire, simply create a cronjob that runs ``cleanup.py`` every now and then. |