Ultimately what they really need is: View-03 wsgi.file_wrapper for large file serving
from: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Version1.1Features At least then it will be optimal for WSGI case. Graham On Jan 8, 10:42 am, bruno desthuilliers <bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 jan, 00:15, bruno desthuilliers <bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> > 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 ?. > > (sorry, hit the send button to soon) > > Else, you could eventually just pass the file object itself to > HttpResponse: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#passing-it... > > ... but I don't know if you will gain that much from doing so (wild > guess: this probably depends on how you deploy your django instance). > Also, this may (or not) cause problem with ressource (the file) > deallocation (but this can eventually be solved using some 'lazy' > proxy instead of the file object itself). > > HTH --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
