On Sunday, March 20, 2011, Pascal Germroth <funkyco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use X-Sendfile to serve some medium-sized files. There > doesn't seem to be built-in support for this, although the soc2009/ > http-wsgi-improvements branch looks like somebody attempted to > implement HttpResponseSendFile (although it seems to use the slow > path). > > Building a proper response manually is not the problem (since the > apache extension does the content-type guessing and length > calculation) but I would like an automatic fall-back so `manage.py > runserver` doesn't put out an empty response leaking the header but > serves the file like a proper server should. > > So: is there a class that detects the server and uses the X-Sendfile > header if supported, or a branch where core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler > supports X-Sendfile?
At present, there isn't any support for X-Sendfile. It is a feature that has been discussed at many times in the past, including the GSOC2009; however, nobody has ever carried it the last mile and got it into trunk. So; if you're interested, this is an area where you could make a contribution. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
