Description
https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/http_foundation.html#serving-files suggests that Symfony will automagically leverage the mod_xsendfile
module to efficiently send files.
As symfony/symfony#24897 correctly points out, this is not true: BinaryFileResponse
will only make use of mod_xsendfile
if a particular header is present, which is not the default case for Apache.
So, in fact, users might be sending out their files through PHP, even if they have mod_xsendfile
installed. Probably they are not aware of this.
One way of fixing this is to enable the mod_headers
Apache module and add the following to the Apache configuration:
<IfModule mod_xsendfile.c>
# This is already present somewhere...
XSendFile on
XSendFilePath ...some path...
# This needs to be added:
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
RequestHeader set X-Sendfile-Type X-Sendfile
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
My suggestion is to add a warning/info box somewhere near https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/http_foundation.html#serving-files.