Viewing large text file in a browser

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Published on 2009-08-16T10:15:17Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 20:35 UTC
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Hi, I need to write a text file viewer (not the directory tree, but the actual file contents) for use in a browser. It will be used to view large files. I want to give the user the ability to actually ummm, browse the file, ie prev page & next page buttons, while each page will show only a portion of the file.

Two question:

Is there anyway to pass the file descriptor through POST (or something) so that on each page I can keep reading from an already open file, and not starting all over again (again - huge files)
Is there a way to read the file backwards? Will be very useful for browsing back in a file.

Any other implementation ideas are very welcome. Thanks

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