how to access binary file which is outside project folder

[sam kavuri]

I am new to Django and trying to access binary file which is outside project folder and open it in the browser.

When i try to do that it is saying Cross-Origin Request is blocked (Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin missing).

Somebody, please help on this.

[Andréas Kühne]

Hi,

You shouldn't be doing that at all. If you want the file to be accessable you need to include it in your media folder in the project - that's per design.

The way django (and all other frameworks) work is to make sure that only the items present in the application should be allowed. Even if you COULD use for example "file://home/andreas/file.pdf" as a link, it wouldn't work on anything else but YOUR machine, because that points to YOUR harddrive and nowhere else.

Regards,

Andréas

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