Dear Markus, This is a very interesting topic.
Please keep me informed of answers. Regards. David On 11 August 2010 15:26, Markus <pinky0...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > it was hard to find the right subject. Let me explain what I want to > do. > > I write a web application with Django. I have some forms to upload > content and some forms to download content. Sometimes the content is > just a string (than it will be stored in a database) but sometimes the > content is a (large) file. Than the file will be stored to a > distributed file system running in the background. > > Uploading the files is not a problems. First Django stores the file to > a local directory of the server and than it get moved to the > distributed file system. Not really nifty but I couldn't find a > solution to stream the data directly to the distributed file system. > > But the really hard part is the download. How do I serve this files > back to the user? Sure, I could do the same as I do for upload: First > download the files from the distributed file system to the local file > system and than serve it to the users. But when has the user finished > the download and I can remove the local copy of the file? Just to > mention one open question. > > I hope I could describe my problem in an understandable way. > > What would be a good way to serve internal files to a user? Is it > possible to pipe the files directly from the distributed file system > to the user? > > Cheers, > Markus > > -- > 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=en. > > -- 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=en.
