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    copied!<p>So I of course know that serving static files through Django will send you straight to hell but I am confused on how to use a custom url to mask the true location of the file using Django. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2681338/django-serving-a-download-in-a-generic-view">Django: Serving a Download in a Generic View</a> but the answer I accepted seems to be the "wrong" way of doing things.</p> <p>urls.py:</p> <pre><code>url(r'^song/(?P&lt;song_id&gt;\d+)/download/$', song_download, name='song_download'), </code></pre> <p>views.py:</p> <pre><code>def song_download(request, song_id): song = Song.objects.get(id=song_id) fsock = open(os.path.join(song.path, song.filename)) response = HttpResponse(fsock, mimetype='audio/mpeg') response['Content-Disposition'] = "attachment; filename=%s - %s.mp3" % (song.artist, song.title) return response </code></pre> <p>This solution works <em>perfectly</em> but not perfectly enough it turns out. How can I avoid having a direct link to the mp3 while still serving through nginx/apache?</p> <p><strong>EDIT 1 - ADDITIONAL INFO</strong></p> <p>Currently I can get my files by using an address such as: <code>http://www.example.com/music/song/1692/download/</code> But the above mentioned method is the devil's work.</p> <p>How can I accomplished what I get above while still making nginx/apache serve the media? Is this something that should be done at the webserver level? Some crazy mod_rewrite?</p> <p><code>http://static.example.com/music/Aphex%20Twin%20-%20Richard%20D.%20James%20(V0)/10%20Logon-Rock%20Witch.mp3</code></p> <p><strong>EDIT 2 - ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL INFO</strong></p> <p>I use nginx for my frontend and reverse proxy back apache/development server so I think if it does require some sort of mod_rewrite work I will have to find something that would work with nginx.</p>
 

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