return a output linux log file in formatted way

Question

Hi I am using django and following the below method in views.py to return a output file,

response = HttpResponse(content=log_file)
response['Content-Type'] = 'application/txt:html'
return HttpResponse(response)

Now the issue is when I return the file in browser is displayed without /n (next line)

my actual file content is,

../xyz/value.txt
../abc/cls.txt
../opt/value.txt
../zz.txt

But it is display as,

../xyz/value.txt ../abc/cls.txt ../opt/value.txt ../zz.txt

when I open the same file with vim editor in linux machine it displays properly but here when I return from views and read it in browser it shows without /n

How can I fix this issue?

try `text = text.replace("\n","")` to force html newlines: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39325414/line-break-in-html-with-n — Jean-François Fabre, Nov 17 '17 at 14:49
What kind of mime type is `application/txt:html`? Try `text/plain` instead, maybe? If the content is displayed as html, all whitespace is truncated, so tabs, newlines and spaces all display as a single space. — Håken Lid, Nov 17 '17 at 21:27
Possible duplicate of [How do I serve a text file from Django?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14503062/how-do-i-serve-a-text-file-from-django) — Håken Lid, Nov 17 '17 at 21:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 18 '17 at 08:37

StreamingHttpResponse response from djanto.http solved the issue as below,

from django.http import StreamingHttpResponse

@csrf_exempt
def display_text(request):
    content = open(log_file).read()
    response = StreamingHttpResponse(content)
    response['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain; charset=utf8'
    return response

return a output linux log file in formatted way

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