Re: Pylons equivalent of cherrypy's serve_file? - Chris - com.googlegroups.pylons-discuss

5 messages in com.googlegroups.pylons-discussRe: Pylons equivalent of cherrypy's s...

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Chris	24 Jun 2008 19:40
Jonathan Vanasco	24 Jun 2008 20:18
Garland, Ken R	24 Jun 2008 20:36
Shannon -jj Behrens	24 Jun 2008 23:15
Chris	26 Jun 2008 19:32

Subject:	Re: Pylons equivalent of cherrypy's serve_file?
From:	Chris (life...@gmail.com)
Date:	06/26/2008 07:32:26 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.pylons-discuss

Thank you, the paste.fileapp was worked great.

I've not used the If-Modified-Since and If-Modified headers before.. I'll take a look and try to utilize them.

On Jun 25, 1:15 am, "Shannon -jj Behrens" <jji...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Chris <life...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a Pylons equivalent of CherryPy's serve_file ? I'm trying to allow file download for files that are not in the 'public' directory

In cherry py, it'd go something like this: from cherrypy.lib.static import serve_file class Root: @cherrypy.expose def download(self, name): return serve_file(os.path.join(download_dir, name), content_type='text/plain')

Many thanks.

You might need to think about browser caching. If-Modified-Since and If-Modified aren't that hard to do manually. I've done them before when I was generating JavaScript dynamically so that the browser wouldn't have to redownload the JavaScript on every page hit.

-jj