How to handle crossdomain.xml in django?

Question

I'm running an an ubuntu vm - django is running under apache2 behind nginx

I need to setup crossdomain.xml - currently getting 'access denied' etc when trying to play flash movs

whats the best way to set this up?

Answer 1

You could also try django-flashpolicies, which will construct the XML for you. It does serve the crossdomain.xml file via Django, which will be less efficient than serving it statically.

Answer 2

You can let nginx serve the crossdomain.xml for you. you can find an example config here.

this is more efficient and site-wide if you like.

Answer 3

Another solution is create view in your app where you handle requests from flash:

def crossdomain(request, **kwargs):
    return render(request, 'crossdomain.xml', {})

Put crossdomain.xml in your templates dir, and add pattern to urls.py:

(r'^crossdomain.xml', 'projectname.appname.views.crossdomain')

(it's not good for production servers until you use cache over django).