On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:11 PM, zak2011 <zak2...@m.allo.ws> wrote:
> Dear Django Users,
>
> tl;dr: Please tell me what strategies I might use to serve a large
> static file from within Django, from views.py.
>
> If I want to limit access to a particular page in a Django app, I can
> do something like this in views.py:
>
> (Note: I will use four periods to indent, because spaces or tabs might
> not display properly.)
>
> def private_page(request):
> ....if special_permissions_checking_function(request.user):
> ........return render_to_response('private_page_template.html')
> ....else:
> ........return render_to_response('access_denied.html')
>
> What if I want to limit access to a large static file, instead of a
> dynamically generated HTML template?
>
>
The fastest way to do this is to tell the web server to serve the file from
a protected location. Apache and nginx both have ways to signal from python
code that a file should be read from disk and streamed to the user. This
file doesn't have to be in a location which is accessible through a normal
web request; ideally all access to it would be through your app, and you
can do whatever access checks that you want to before serving it.
Look up X-SENDFILE for Apache, or X-Accel-Redirect for nginx for the
details.
Ian
> Ideally the resulting website will be fast, but I also want to hear
> options that might be low performance.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Zak
>
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