Re: giving download links

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 05:20, raj <nano.ricky@gmail.com> wrote:
> I allow a user to upload a file, how do I now allow them to download
> this file? I looked at the "serving static files" thing in the
> djangoproject, but they said it causes security flaws or something.
> Can someone help me? I couldn't find good information on google. Thank
> you.

What do you mean, you just give them the link to the file they just uploaded.
<a href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}/images/image_to_download.jpg">Download here</a>
Here you can use whatever template tools you have available.

Serving static files are just for debugging and to be used with
manage.py runserver, due to, as you said, security and scaling.
You should look into mod_python, mod_wsgi, fastcgi or some other
application, in order to serve your media files.

Take a look at the documentation or the djangobook:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/
http://www.djangobook.com/en/beta/chapter21/

Or am I missing something?

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