Symptoms: unable to serve media files on windows, getting a large number of 302 redirects
Problem: It seems that something is replacing slashes with backslashes in the url as shown in django-admins runserver log:
[24/Nov/2005 09:15:23] "GET /media/css/print.css HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[24/Nov/2005 09:15:23] "GET /media/css/css%5Cprint.css HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[24/Nov/2005 09:15:23] "GET /media/css/css%5Cprint.css HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[24/Nov/2005 09:15:23] "GET /media/css/css%5Cprint.css HTTP/1.1" 302 0
...
Solution: replace backslashes in newpath with slashes
Patch:
Index: static.py
===================================================================
--- static.py (revision 1396)
+++ static.py (working copy)
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
if part in (os.curdir, os.pardir):
# strip '.' amd '..' in path
continue
- newpath = os.path.join(newpath, part)
+ newpath = os.path.join(newpath, part).replace('\\', '/')
if newpath and path != newpath:
return HttpResponseRedirect(newpath)
fullpath = os.path.join(document_root, newpath)
Credits: nesh for helping me create this patch
