Alternatives and related projects

This document presents other projects that provide similar or complementary functionalities. It focuses on differences with django-downloadview.

Django’s static file view

Django has a builtin static file view [1]. It can stream files. As explained in Django documentation, it is designed for development purposes. For production, static files’d better be served by some optimized server.

Django-downloadview can replace Django’s builtin static file view:

• perform actions with Django when receiving download requests: check permissions, generate files, gzip, logging, signals...
• delegate actual download to a reverse proxy for increased performance.
• disable optimization middlewares or decorators in development, if you want to serve files with Django.

References

[1]	https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#static-file-development-view