question about returning file (pdf,image,zip...) in a request that made from temporary URL

[ali Eblice]

hello
think of a downloading website:
when we create a temporary link in django and map it to actual URL or file path in database like this:

id -- temporary_URL -- origin_URL  --  file_path

so when a user used a temporary URL and directed to some view , how should i return that file from that view for user to be able to download that file?
i know that i can use "FileResponse"  or  "StreamingHttpResponse" but in django documentation says that we should use these for short-lived requests but downloading a big file can take long time, so what should i do ?
i appreciate any help and idea

[Stefano Probst]

Hello,
you can use X-Accel-Redirect. See django-downloadview and "Nginx, Django, and X-Accel-Redirects".

Best regards

[ali Eblice]

thanks for reply
 i setup the x-sendfile but there's a problem :

django return a x-sendfile response successfully but since i'm using django development area and the development area runs on port 8000 the return response will be on port 8000 but the apache web server runs on port 80 so the response wont go to apache  so it cause me to download the file with 0 byte size

how can i solve this problem ?

[Stefano Probst]

You could use a whole deployment setup. Forward Django though nginx by using WSGI (Gnuicorn, etc). Then everything should work.