[Answered ]-Serve a file for download with Django

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You want to set the Content-disposition header to “attachment” (and set the proper content-type too – from the var names I assume those files are android packages, else replace with the proper content type):

response = HttpResponse(fh, content_type="application/vnd.android.package-archive") 
response["Content-disposition"] = "attachment; filename={}".format(os.path.basename(path_to_apk))
return response
👤bruno desthuilliers

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First of all you have to set the Content_Disposition header to attachment.

And instead of worrying about correct value for Content_Type header, use FileResponse
instead of HttpResponse:

file=open(path_to_apk,"rb")
response=FileResponse(file)
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename={}'.format(os.path.basename(path_to_apk))
return response
👤Prateek Gupta

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You can use a FileResponse with as_attachment=True for this. It will handle stuff like reading the file into memory, setting the correct Content-Type, Content-Disposition, etc. automatically for you.

from django.http import FileResponse

def download_file(request):
    return FileResponse(open(path_to_apk, 'rb'), as_attachment=True)
👤F30

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