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A Django application that lets you serve protected static files via your frontend server after authorizing the user against django.contrib.auth.

Install

  • python setup.py install

Usage

  • add protected_files to your INSTALLED_APPS
  • add an URL to your protected resource to your urls.py (see tests.urls for examples)
  • configure your static server

Static Server Configuration

Nginx ^^^^^

Place this in your Nginx configuration::

# this location will only be used by your Django application server
location /protected {
    internal;
    alias   /protected/files/path/;
}

To Do

  • Support alternative means of authorization (user, group, is_staff, etc.)
  • Support additional static servers (Lighttpd)

Acknowledgements

Based on http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/491/

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A Django application that lets you serve protected static files via your frontend server after authorizing the user against django.contrib.auth.

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