Re: Serving mov file with Django

That makes sense. I've tried using sendfile but i'm not getting the behavior I expect.

I'm using the simple backend:

SENDFILE_BACKEND = 'sendfile.backends.xsendfile'

And i'm sending the file like this:

project_path = os.path.dirname(__file__)

path = os.path.join(project_path, "..", "songs", song.file_name)

return sendfile(request, path, attachment=True)

But that's resulting in a file download in the browser which is not the behavior I get when i add an alias to apache and serve it that way.

On Saturday, December 27, 2014 11:54:15 AM UTC-5, Tim Chase wrote:

On 2014-12-27 08:00, Hanley Hansen wrote:
> I want to serve an mov file on the file system with Django the way
> Apache would. IBe managed to serve the file as a download but I'm
> looking to stream it so it plays in browser. I want to avoid
> setting up a alias in Apache. Though it's a static file I need to
> stream it securely based on the user. Is that possible?

It sounds like you want to investigate the "Django sendfile"

https://www.google.com/search?q=django+sendfile

which makes use of headers which tell the wrapping server (Apache,
lighttpd, nginx, etc) to send a file straight from the file-system
without needing to keep your Django app in the loop. The request hits
your Django app, you do whatever auth check you need, and if it
passes, you use sendfile in/as your response to instruct your
web-server to send the corresponding file. There's a nice write-up at

http://www.sensibledevelopment.com/2010/11/django-sendfile-an-for-abstraction-large-file-serving-in-django/

that shows how it's used.  I believe it has the limitation that the
file has to come from the same server rather than a media-server, but
it does ease the load that serving directly from Django would cause.

-tkc

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