On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Graham Dumpleton > <graham.dumple...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In short, it is all a mess and trying to provide support for it in one bit >> of code is possibly asking a bit much. > > One possible solution would be to split the problem up a bit. Django > could provide an HttpFileResponse object. This would use the new lazy > response mechanism in 1.3 to render the file locally (by doing a naive > open/read) on demand. But then we could also ship a collection of > middleware classes that know how to translate a HttpFileResponse for > each various backend (FileResponseToXSendFile, FileResponseToXAccell, > etc). Users could then select the correct piece of middleware for > their upstream server or write their own for ones not supported out of > the box. > > The nice thing about this approach is that it could be explored as a > third-party app and made available to anyone using 1.3 or above. > > Can anyone see a reason why this wouldn't work? Want to throw some > code together and give it a try?
That's pretty much exactly what django-filetransfers tries to do on the download side: http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/django-filetransfers Hotever it's not only for X-Sendfile, but also for any other file serving mechanisms and it's not only for downloads, but also for uploads. There's also a corresponding patch (which still needs lots of work) for including that functionality in Django (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13960). Is this what you were thinking of? Bye, Waldemar -- Django on App Engine, MongoDB, ...? Browser-side Python? It's open-source: http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
