When we upload files to the CDN, we store that path with the object. Then we override the widget for the file so we can server the file directly from the CDN using that field. Would that work for you?
On Aug 12, 7:54 am, shi shaozhong <shishaozh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Markus, > > This is a very interesting topic. > > Please keep me informed of answers. > > Regards. > > David > > On 11 August 2010 15:26, Markus <pinky0...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > it was hard to find the right subject. Let me explain what I want to > > do. > > > I write a web application with Django. I have some forms to upload > > content and some forms to download content. Sometimes the content is > > just a string (than it will be stored in a database) but sometimes the > > content is a (large) file. Than the file will be stored to a > > distributed file system running in the background. > > > Uploading the files is not a problems. First Django stores the file to > > a local directory of the server and than it get moved to the > > distributed file system. Not really nifty but I couldn't find a > > solution to stream the data directly to the distributed file system. > > > But the really hard part is the download. How do I serve this files > > back to the user? Sure, I could do the same as I do for upload: First > > download the files from the distributed file system to the local file > > system and than serve it to the users. But when has the user finished > > the download and I can remove the local copy of the file? Just to > > mention one open question. > > > I hope I could describe my problem in an understandable way. > > > What would be a good way to serve internal files to a user? Is it > > possible to pipe the files directly from the distributed file system > > to the user? > > > Cheers, > > Markus > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
