Having Django serve downloadable files

Question

I want users on the site to be able to download files whose paths are obscured so they cannot be directly downloaded.

For instance, I\'d like the URL to be something

Answer 1

It was mentioned above that the mod_xsendfile method does not allow for non-ASCII characters in filenames.

For this reason, I have a patch available for mod_xsendfile that will allow any file to be sent, as long as the name is url encoded, and the additional header:

X-SendFile-Encoding: url

Is sent as well.

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