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

I have faced the same problem more then once and so implemented using xsendfile module and auth view decorators the django-filelibrary. Feel free to use it as inspiration for your own solution.

https://github.com/danielsokolowski/django-filelibrary