Django redirect to an swf

Question

Hi, I'm trying to redirect to a swf file because I need to embedd that in a fb:swf which wants its absolute path. When I handle the swf in url's somehow it doesn't work.

In url.py

(r'^flash/','lastproject.yofacebook.flashtest.flash'),

In flahstest.flash

def flash(request):
return render_to_response('as3.swf')

I want to open the swf on this url

http://testapp.varheroes.com/flash/

the fb:swf

<fb:swf 
 swfbgcolor="ffffff"  
 swfsrc='http://testapp.varheroes.com/flash/'
 width='620' height='530' />

The error I get

'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 5-6: invalid data

Answer 1

render_to_response is used to render a template and send it as a response. I don't think your swf file is a template, so you should just return it directly:

return HttpResponse(open('as3.swf'))

But really you shouldn't be sending that file through Django at all, it should be served by whatever is serving the rest of your static files (CSS, JS etc).