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Asked: 2026-05-24T11:34:33+00:00

We want to serve protected media from django, using something similar to the django

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We want to serve protected media from django, using something similar to the django nginx x-accel-redirect setup.

The only problem is that the static files are not located on the public facing django/nginx machine, but in a internal machine that streams the file via http/rest api.

Currently we download the file on the nginx machine and serve it via nginx x-accel-redirect, but we want to optimize this part and looking for options. x-accel-redirect has known problems with files that are streamed from another source.

We are contemplating using django itself as a quasi buffer, but are open to other options as integrating something like whizzer/twisted, or maybe even having another service altogether.

What would be the best option for serving those static files and preserving security?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use: http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/django-filetransfers

    Make your own Django storage backend for the internal machine’s http/rest api, that returns
    a File object, and pass that object to filetransfer’s server_file function.

    That’s how I do it in Mayan EDMS https://github.com/rosarior/mayan/blob/master/apps/documents/views.py#L300

    django-storages’ backends could help you get started.

    https://bitbucket.org/david/django-storages/wiki/Home

    Update:

    Django_resto appears to have an http based storage class

    https://github.com/aaugustin/django-resto/blob/master/django_resto/storage.py#L62

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