// Hacker Noon · 31 May 2026

Streaming ZIP Archives On the Fly With nginx + mod_zip: No Disk, No Buffers, No Problem

Instead of downloading files to disk, computing checksums, and building a ZIP before serving it, we use nginx + mod_zip to stream archives directly to the client. PHP returns a short manifest listing file URLs and sizes — nginx fetches each file via internal subrequests and pumps them into a ZIP str...

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