Redirect with string?

[Lachlan Musicman]

Hi all,

I have a thermal line printer (a Zebra LP2824 fwiw) and I've
discovered/worked out that I can print with it by just sending a text,
a la:

cat filename | nc <ipaddress> <portnumber>

I tried this in my view:

return redirect("<ipaddress>", "string")

but it's printing out the HttpResponse object.

How would I send a string to the IP in question from a view?

cheers
L.


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[Collin Anderson]

redirect is a django shortcut for an http redirect response, not a file/pipe redirect. You need to use a python socket to connect to the ip address.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68774/best-way-to-open-a-socket-in-python

[Lachlan Musicman]

Thanks Collin, I'll test on Monday
L.

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[Lachlan Musicman]

Collin, worked a charm - thankyou!
L.