Serving files through flask + redis

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This might be a bit of a noob question, so I apologize in advance. How do I make a web server running flask+redis serve binary files as a response to a link/query?

I want the response to the link to be either some AJAX action such as changing a div, or popping up an "unavailable" response, or to serve back some binary file. I would like help both with the client side (jQuery / other Javascript) and the server side.

Thanks!

Side question: Would you choose redis for this task? Or maybe something else such as MongoDB, or a regular RDBMS? And why?

For your side question, refer to this nice thread

Salil
– Salil

2012-07-01 05:57:03 +00:00
Commented Jul 1, 2012 at 5:57 — Salil
– Salil, Commented Jul 1, 2012 at 5:57

Daniel Roseman · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-30 20:15:14Z

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Normally you would configure your webserver so that URLs that refer to static files are handled directly by the server, rather than going through Flask.

answered Jun 30, 2012 at 20:15

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Guy Adini Over a year ago

Yeah... This is a pretty strange situation, where the webpage is actually the report of some test suite that I run, and its "links" need to be to content which might or might not be available.

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