I have implemented something included in django: from django.core.servers.basehttp import FileWrapper
wrapper = FileWrapper(file(filepath)) response = HttpResponse(wrapper, mimetype=type) It works great, but anyway I'm gonna study your solutions. Which would you recommend me? Regards, Adrian. On 23 nov, 18:38, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. You could read (and thus write) in smaller chunks, by giving read() an > argument indicating the number of bytes to read: > > f = open(file) # The mode 'r' is default > for buf in read(1024*32): > response.write(buf) > f.close() > > 2. You could, instead, let Apache serve the files in encrypted form, > and sell the > user a decryption key. > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Adrián Ribao <ari...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I have created a website where you can buy and download some files. > > For security reasons all the files are served through a view, where > > comprobations are made in order to assure that the user bought the > > product. > > > The problem is that the files are at least 400Mb and some of them are > > nearly 1Gb. Using this view is inefficient since all the content is > > loaded into memory and it kills the server: > > > type, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(file) > > name = os.path.basename(file) > > response = HttpResponse(mimetype=type) > > response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=%s' % > > (smart_str(name),) > > > f = open(file, 'r') > > response.write(f.read()) > > f.close() > > return response > > > How could I solve this problem? > > > Regards, > > > Adrian. > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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=.
