On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:58 PM, sebastiaan <svanachterbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > currently I'm working on an application that serves PDF files using > HttpResponse: > > f = open( pdfFileName, 'r' ) > > response = http.HttpResponse( f.read(), mimetype='application/ > pdf' ) > response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=%s' % > pdfFileName > > f.close() > > return response > > Problem is that HttpResponse creates the served file in /tmp which is > not desirable. > > Anyone have a suggestion? > > PS: I've also tried with StringIO, same result. >
I wasn't aware django buffered responses into TMPDIR, however... HttpResponse either takes a string or a file-like object. When you pass it a file-like object it reads it in chunks and outputs it in chunks. You're passing it a string, but you could just pass it the file handle, in which case it would output it in chunks*. Cheers Tom * Certain middleware breaks with chunked style responses, particularly caching. See [1] for details. [1] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6527 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
