http - Byte Ranges in Django

Question

Is there an existing implementation of HTTP byte ranges in Django? I.e. when the client sends a Range: header, I want my Django app to accept that and reply with a HTTP "206 Partial Content" response.

I could write something from scratch, but surely someone has already done this?

There are various parts to this:

1. Parsing and sanity checking the Range header
2. Actually generating the ranges
3. Support for returning a single range in the response
4. Support for returning multiple ranges in a single response, appropriately MIME encoded

Surely at least (1) and (4) have library support somewhere?

Answer 1

Here's some basic middleware code that should work for Django 1.11+. It only handles a single range, but that's all I personally need.

import os

from django.utils.deprecation import MiddlewareMixin


class RangesMiddleware(MiddlewareMixin):
    def process_response(self, request, response):
        if response.status_code != 200 or not hasattr(response, 'file_to_stream'):
            return response
        http_range = request.META.get('HTTP_RANGE')
        if not (http_range and http_range.startswith('bytes=') and http_range.count('-') == 1):
            return response
        if_range = request.META.get('HTTP_IF_RANGE')
        if if_range and if_range != response.get('Last-Modified') and if_range != response.get('ETag'):
            return response
        f = response.file_to_stream
        statobj = os.fstat(f.fileno())
        start, end = http_range.split('=')[1].split('-')
        if not start:  # requesting the last N bytes
            start = max(0, statobj.st_size - int(end))
            end = ''
        start, end = int(start or 0), int(end or statobj.st_size - 1)
        assert 0 <= start < statobj.st_size, (start, statobj.st_size)
        end = min(end, statobj.st_size - 1)
        f.seek(start)
        old_read = f.read
        f.read = lambda n: old_read(min(n, end + 1 - f.tell()))
        response.status_code = 206
        response['Content-Length'] = end + 1 - start
        response['Content-Range'] = 'bytes %d-%d/%d' % (start, end, statobj.st_size)
        return response

Install it in settings.py like so:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
    'path.to.RangesMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
]