Is that not going to kill Python; especially if I am serving enormous
files at high speeds to multiple users? It also needs to support
concurrent connections to the same resource as well as starting
offsets for download managers?
On Apr 7, 2:14 pm, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jason Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have not "dived" into Pylons yet; but the question I am curious
> > about is how I would use AuthKit's authentication (digest
> > specifically) too protect static content (I dont mean images; I am
> > server rather large; over 4GB files) and I need them secured.
>
> You can move them out of the public directory and serve them in a
> controller action; then you can apply the normal AuthKit controls to
> it. For instance, I had to log a directory of static help files using
> logging code I had already written for Pylons.
>
> # routing.py
> map.connect("help", "/help/{url:.*}", controller="main", action="help")
>
> # MainController.py
> def help(self, url, environ, start_response):
> """
> ``url`` is the rest of the request path.
> ``environ`` and ``start_response`` are special args in Pylons,
> used to chain to another
> WSGI application.
> """
> # Using the Unipath package here, but you can use os.path instead.
> url = Path(url or "index.htm")
> page = url.stem # Base filename without directory or extension.
> help_dir = Path(config["pylons.paths"]["help_files"]) # My
> own config variable.
> path = Path(help_dir, url)
> if not path.exists():
> abort(404)
> if url.ext == ".htm" and not page.startswith("wh"):
> self.sitestats.log_event("help", page) # My logging
> code; log view of help section.
> app = FileApp(path)
> return app(environ, start_response)
>
> --
> Mike Orr <[email protected]>
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