How to to make a file private by securing the url that only authenticated users can see

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to secure an image or a file to be hidden when it is not authenticated.

Suppose there is an image in my website which can only be s

Answer 1

The easiest option is to serve the file from django, and then add the @login_required decorator to the view, like this:

import os
import mimetypes
from django.core.servers.basehttp import FileWrapper
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

@login_required
def sekret_view(request, path=None):
   filename = os.path.basename(path)
   response = HttpResponse(FileWrapper(open(path)),
                           content_type=mimetypes.guess_type(path)[0])
   response['Content-Length'] = os.path.getsize(path)
   return response