Re: Best practices for restricting media?

On Feb 23, 5:00 am, David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > On 22/02/10 16:48, Brice Leroy wrote: > > > Hello Brett, > > If you use nginx you can use the X-Accel-Redirect function. > > Minor: if you _don't_ use nginx but rather apache or lighttpd, > similar feature is

Re: Best practices for restricting media?

On 22/02/10 16:48, Brice Leroy wrote: Hello Brett, If you use nginx you can use the X-Accel-Redirect function. Minor: if you _don't_ use nginx but rather apache or lighttpd, similar feature is called "X-Sendfile". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Best practices for restricting media?

Actually, this snippet should be better to explain X-Accel-Redirect feature: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/491/ 2010/2/22 Brice Leroy > Hello Brett, > If you use nginx you can use the X-Accel-Redirect function. Technicaly, you > get the file request on django,

Re: Best practices for restricting media?

Hello Brett, If you use nginx you can use the X-Accel-Redirect function. Technicaly, you get the file request on django, you check if the user should have an access to the file and then you send back a header with the filename inside to your instance of NGinx. Nginx then serve the file.

Best practices for restricting media?

Hey, this is a pretty basic sysadmin question, but seems pretty critical for django development. What's the best way to limit media on a django site to certain users? A typical example is a photo gallery app. Suppose you are recreating Flickr, and a user's photos should only be viewable by