[Answer]-Django response content disappearing

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Just as an alterative approach try creating the response, then passing it directly to pisa?

response = http.HttpResponse(mimetype='application/pdf')
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=%s' % filename
pisa.CreatePDF(file_data, response) 
return response

Have you decided against saving the file and serving it through Nginx X-Accel-Redirect? – Just for completeness here’s an example of that:

Django view:

resp = http.HttpResponse()
resp['Content-Type'] = 'application/pdf'
resp['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=filename.pdf'
resp['X-Accel-Redirect'] = '/xaccel_path/%s' % relative_path_to_file
return resp

nginx config:

server { 
...
location /xaccel_path {
internal;
alias /path/to/protected/files/;
}
}
👤Ben Eliott

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