Thanks for your response. I ended up following your advice and works well.
My mistake on the jpeg content-type. On Apr 24, 6:21 pm, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:35 PM, bstow01 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have written some custom middleware that is handy when serving HTML > > pages. Lately Ive created a controller that returns a dynamically > > generated JPEG (content-type: text/jpeg) and my custom middleware > > doesn't make any sense in the context of serving JPEG's (and it in > > fact chokes on it). Is there a way to simply leap frog over a certain > > piece of middleware for certain controllers or routes? - or - maybe it > > would be better to return early from my custom middleware based upon > > some kind of condition that identifies the requests that will return > > JPEGs? > > Normally the middleware itself would pass through content types it > can't handle properly. But if it doesn't, and if it's not possible to > modify the middleware (e.g., with a constructor arg that tells it > which kinds of content to ignore), you could write a wrapper > middleware that selectively invokes it or bypasses it. This would not > be a straight middleware chain, but the wrapper would be in the chain, > and it would invoke the custom middleware in the appropriate > circumstances. > > app = MyWrapperMiddleware(app, MyCustomMiddleware, content_types=["text/*"]) > > if content_type in content_types: > body = self.custom_middleware(body) > > something like that. > > JPEG is not "text/jpeg" of course; it's "image/jpeg". That could be > your problem if you're serving it as text/jpeg. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
