On Jan 7, 2009, at 4:15 PM, bruno desthuilliers wrote:
>
> On 7 jan, 23:37, David Lindquist <david.lindqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like to return a binary file from a view, and so far I have
>> something like this:
>>
>> def my_file(request):
>> file_data = open("/path/to/file", "rb").read()
>> response = HttpResponse(file_data, mimetype="application/
>> whatever")
>> response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=my_file'
>> return response
>>
>> Is there a better way to do this, especially for very large (> 10MB)
>> files?
>
> Do you have any reason to serve these files thru django instead of
> letting your frontal web server handle them ?.
The files do not reside under our site's document root, because my
boss does not want them there (for reasons that aren't entirely clear
to me). Also, we want to do some extra processing before the file is
served, e.g. increment an integer representing the number of
downloads. Thirdly, we want to be able to force the browser to
download the file instead of displaying it (in the case of PDFs, for
example).
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