#2131: [patch] HttpResponseSendFile for serving static files handler-specific
sendfile mechanism
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Reporter: ymasuda[at]ethercube.com | Owner: alsleme
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: Core framework | Version: SVN
Resolution: | Keywords:
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 1
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 1
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by graham.carl...@maplecroft.com):
Looked in to this a while back (I created the duplicate ticket #7894 with
similar patch), but found that in production using the WSGI file_wrapper
approach can be problematic. I found that serving PDFs to an adobe reader
client failed for documents above around 25MB in size because reader
required the web server to satisfy byte range requests which didn't work
with WSGI. I ended up using the X-SendFile header and mod_xsendfile (on
apache) which didn't have these problems. I'm not certain whether serving
bytes range is inherently impossible with WSGI but requests to apache with
mod_wsgi didn't satisfy them for the WSGI content.
Also you might like to make the same change that the patch in #7894 made
to the 'django.views.static.serve' function so the django development
server can use this speedup.
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