On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Ian Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think you want something like this.
>
> from paste.fileapp import FileApp
>
> #.... in controller ....
>         #...in some action, get the path to serve
>         wsgi_app = FileApp(path)
>         return wsgi_app(request.environ, self.start_response)

Yes, use paste.fileapp.  You can just return the wsgi_app object
directly, and Pylons will call it for you.

> A better solution you might want to look into is x-sendfile/x-accel-redirect
> which let's you pass the path up to a proxying server via a header that it
> can use to serve the file.  That way you can check permissions in your app
> but still serve the file via apache/nginx/etc.

This is a more efficient method which some of us are starting to use.

-- 
Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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