Having Django serve downloadable files

Question

I want users on the site to be able to download files whose paths are obscured so they cannot be directly downloaded.

For instance, I\'d like the URL to be something

Answer 1

Another project to have a look at: http://readthedocs.org/docs/django-private-files/en/latest/usage.html Looks promissing, haven't tested it myself yet tho.

Basically the project abstracts the mod_xsendfile configuration and allows you to do things like:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from private_files import PrivateFileField

def is_owner(request, instance):
    return (not request.user.is_anonymous()) and request.user.is_authenticated and
                   instance.owner.pk = request.user.pk

class FileSubmission(models.Model):
    description = models.CharField("description", max_length = 200)
        owner = models.ForeignKey(User)
    uploaded_file = PrivateFileField("file", upload_to = 'uploads', condition = is_owner)