Django and dynamically generated images

Question

I have a view in a Django application that automatically creates an image using PIL, saves it to a Nginx media server and returns an html template with an img tag pointing to its URL.

This works great, but I notice a problem. For every 5 times I get access to this view, in 1 of them the image is not displayed.

I did some research and I found something interesting, this is the HTTP response header when the image is displayed correctly:

Accept-Ranges:bytes
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:14966
Content-Type:image/jpeg
Date:Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:36:16 GMT
Last-Modified:Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:36:16 GMT
Server:nginx/0.5.33

and this is the title when the image does not load:

Accept-Ranges:bytes
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:0
Content-Type:image/jpeg
Date:Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:37:47 GMT
Last-Modified:Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:37:46 GMT
Server:nginx/0.5.33

Note that Content-Lenth is zero. What could be the reason for this? Any ideas on how I can further debug this issue?

Edit: , "" . , ( ):

def draw(self):
    # Open/Creates a file
    if not self.image:
        (fd, self.image) = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=settings.IMAGE_PATH, suffix=".jpeg")
        fd2 = os.fdopen(fd, "wb")
    else:
        fd2 = open(os.path.join(settings.SITE_ROOT, self.image), "wb")

    # Creates a PIL Image
    im = Image.new(mode, (width, height))

    # Do some drawing
    .....

    # Saves
    im = im.resize((self.get_size_site(self.width),
                    self.get_size_site(self.height)))
    im.save(fd2, "JPEG")
    fd2.close()

Edit2: -: http://xxxcnn7979.hospedagemdesites.ws:8000/cartao/99/

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Answer 1

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: staticgenerator/__ init__.py, :

import os
import stat
import tempfile

...

f, tmpname = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=directory)
os.write(f, content)
# See http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.fsync
f.flush()
os.fsync(f.fileno())
os.close(f)
# Ensure it is webserver readable
os.chmod(tmpname, stat.S_IREAD | stat.S_IWRITE | stat.S_IWUSR | stat.S_IRUSR | stat.S_IWUSR | stat.S_IRGRP | stat.S_IROTH)
# Rename is an atomic operation in POSIX
# See: http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.rename
os.rename(tmpname, fn)