Django download file not working

Question

I\'m trying to make a script for downloading the uploaded files, on the user\'s machine. The problem is that the download simply doesn\'t work (it either downloads me an emp

Answer 1

Unless you are letting the user download a dynamically generated file, I don't see why you need to do all that.

You can just let this view redirect to the appropriate path, and the respective headers are set by the server serving the static files; typically apache or nginx

I'd do your this view as follows:

from django.conf import settings

def download_course(request,id):
    course = get_object_or_404(Course,id=id)
    filename = course.course
    return redirect('%s/%s'%(settings.MEDIA_URL,filename))

Enjoy :)