Thank you, that is a very helpful suggestion.
However, I have a followup question. What are my options if:
1. It is okay to be slow (low performance), and
2. The method must work on any webserver, not necessarily or
specifically Apache or Nginx.
In pure Python/Django, how do I open a file on the hard disk and put
it into an HttpResponse object? Is FileWrapper involved? How come I
can't find any documentation on 'FileWrapper' by searching
djangoproject.org?
Thanks again,
Zak
On Nov 8, 5:25 pm, Ian Clelland <clell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:11 PM, zak2011 <zak2...@m.allo.ws> wrote:
> > Dear Django Users,
>
> > tl;dr: Please tell me what strategies I might use to serve a large
> > static file from within Django, from views.py.
>
> > If I want to limit access to a particular page in a Django app, I can
> > do something like this in views.py:
>
> > (Note: I will use four periods to indent, because spaces or tabs might
> > not display properly.)
>
> > def private_page(request):
> > ....if special_permissions_checking_function(request.user):
> > ........return render_to_response('private_page_template.html')
> > ....else:
> > ........return render_to_response('access_denied.html')
>
> > What if I want to limit access to a large static file, instead of a
> > dynamically generated HTML template?
>
> The fastest way to do this is to tell the web server to serve the file from
> a protected location. Apache and nginx both have ways to signal from python
> code that a file should be read from disk and streamed to the user. This
> file doesn't have to be in a location which is accessible through a normal
> web request; ideally all access to it would be through your app, and you
> can do whatever access checks that you want to before serving it.
>
> Look up X-SENDFILE for Apache, or X-Accel-Redirect for nginx for the
> details.
>
> Ian
>
>
>
> > Ideally the resulting website will be fast, but I also want to hear
> > options that might be low performance.
>
> > Thank you,
>
> > Zak
>
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