Hi, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:09:29AM -0800, mrts wrote: > On Feb 10, 5:24 pm, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Jari Pennanen <jari.penna...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > I was wondering what is the status of branch branches/soc2009/http- > > > wsgi-improvements > > > (http://github.com/django/django/tree/soc2009/http-wsgi-improvements > > > )? I'm personally interested one bug it fixes, mainly ticket #2131 > > > (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2131) > > You don't need that fix to use efficient file serving. > > Just use an empty response and set the X-Sendfile header manually if > using > Apache. If not, check your server documentation for the right header > name. > > E.g.: > > response = HttpResponse() > response['X-Sendfile'] = '/full/path/to/file' > response['Content-Type'] = 'some/content_type' > response['Content-Length'] = os.stat('/full/path/to/file').st_size > response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="foo"' > return response
This only works for use cases where you have an on-disk file to serve. There are plenty of situations where this may not be the case: * Cloud storage services (e.g. Rackspace Cloud Files) * Large data sets (e.g. data exports to CSV, XML) Etc. Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org
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