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jessejlt / about.txt
Created October 23, 2011 03:20
nginx, flask, and file downloads
Okay so here's the setup:
[-] The primary server API is exposed via Flask (Python) and all static files, including all html, css, js is served by nginx.
[-] Python is exposing an API at url http://domain.com/api/download/<file_id>, where file_id is a database id for the file that we're interested in downloading.
1. User wants to download a file, so we spawn a new window with the url '/api/download/<file_id>'
2. Nginx intercepts the request, sees that it starts with /api/, and then forwards the request to Flask, which is being served on port 5000.
3. Flask routes the request to its download method, retrieves the pertinent data from the file_id, and constructs additional header settings to make nginx happy and to force the browser to see the file stream as a download request instead of the browser just trying to open the file in a new window. Flask then returns the modified header stream to nginx
4. Nginx is finally ready to do some work. While parsing the headers for the incoming request, it encounters "X
@lukemarsden
lukemarsden / httpRequest.py
Created February 27, 2011 21:11
Simple function to do an HTTP POST using Twisted Agent
from twisted.web.iweb import IBodyProducer
from twisted.internet import defer
from twisted.web.client import Agent
from twisted.web.http_headers import Headers
import urllib
class StringProducer(object):
implements(IBodyProducer)
def __init__(self, body):