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@yosemitebandit
yosemitebandit / send_pdf_with_boto_ses.py
Created June 6, 2012 17:56
send PDF attachment with boto and SES
''' quick example showing how to attach a pdf to multipart messages
and then send them from SES via boto
'''
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
import boto
@level09
level09 / clry.conf
Created March 19, 2012 10:06
Django Celery Upstart Conf Script
description "Celery for ReadTheDocs"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
#Send KILL after 20 seconds
kill timeout 20
script
chdir /home/ubuntu/playground/tw
exec bin/python manage.py celeryd -B -c 4 -f /home/ubuntu/log/celery.log
end script
@jessejlt
jessejlt / about.txt
Created October 23, 2011 03:20
nginx, flask, and file downloads
Okay so here's the setup:
[-] The primary server API is exposed via Flask (Python) and all static files, including all html, css, js is served by nginx.
[-] Python is exposing an API at url http://domain.com/api/download/<file_id>, where file_id is a database id for the file that we're interested in downloading.
1. User wants to download a file, so we spawn a new window with the url '/api/download/<file_id>'
2. Nginx intercepts the request, sees that it starts with /api/, and then forwards the request to Flask, which is being served on port 5000.
3. Flask routes the request to its download method, retrieves the pertinent data from the file_id, and constructs additional header settings to make nginx happy and to force the browser to see the file stream as a download request instead of the browser just trying to open the file in a new window. Flask then returns the modified header stream to nginx
4. Nginx is finally ready to do some work. While parsing the headers for the incoming request, it encounters "X