django return file over HttpResponse - file is not served correctly

Question

I want to return some files in a HttpResponse and I\'m using the following function. The file that is returned always has a filesize of 1kb and I do not know why. I can open

Answer 1

Try disabling "django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware" from your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in settings.py

I had the same problem, and after I looked around the middleware folder, this middleware seemed guilty to me and removing it did the trick for me.