django return file over HttpResponse - file is not served correctly

Question

I want to return some files in a HttpResponse and I\'m using the following function. The file that is returned always has a filesize of 1kb and I do not know why. I can open

Answer 1

Could it be that the file contains some non-ascii characters that render ok in production but not in development?

Try reading the file as binary:

fsock = open(file_path,"rb")