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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I need to serve a binary file from disk, not
available in the normal folder for static content. In my code so far I've done
something like this in the render-method :</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>request.setContentType( .... content-type set based
on extension of file to serve )</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>f = open(somefile)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>while 1:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> d = f.read(2048) # what's the
correct size to read</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> if not d:</FONT></DIV>
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break</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> request.write(d)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>request.finish()</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>return</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It seem to return the data OK, it's visible in the
browser, but exceptions are raised in the server. How do I close this connection
the right way? Should this be used with deferred or something like that? The
files can be huge in size.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS! From recent postings in this list is seems as
if Twisted doesn't support compression of content, using gzip etc. Is this true?
This would speed up things considerably. I implemented this in my previous
webserver-project using BaseHTTPServer and on big files the increase in speed
was impressive. Compressing HTML/Plain text/XML etc., just files known to be
based in plain text, would be a great start.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thomas Weholt</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>