On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > The approach for mod_python documented in that link, and equivalent > for mod_wsgi, are only good for HTTP Basic authentication, it is no > good if you want the page to be authenticated using HTML form/cookie > based authentication as Django uses.
Assuming you can add an Apache module, or use lighttpd or nginx, you can write a Django view to handle the authorization, then delegate the actual file delivery to your web server. I think Perlbal also has its reproxy feature to do this. It's been covered a few times in this group: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/search?group=django-users&q=sendfile&qt_g=Search+this+group Links: http://tn123.ath.cx/mod_xsendfile/ http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2006/07/02/x-sendfile http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxXSendfile John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
