DJANGO-STORAGES, PARAMIKO: connection failure for global connection - ftp

Question

I have a strange problem using the SFTP-API from django-storages(https://github.com/jschneier/django-storages). I am trying to use it in order to fetch media-files, which are stored on a different server and thus needed to create a Proxy for SFTP Downloads, since plain Django just sends GET-requests to the MEDIA_ROOT. I figured that Middleware provides a good hook:
import mimetypes
from storages.backends.sftpstorage import SFTPStorage
from django.http import HttpResponse
from storages.backends.sftpstorage import SFTPStorage
class SFTPMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
# Code to be executed for each request before
# the view (and later middleware) are called.
response = self.get_response(request)
try:
path = request.get_full_path()
SFTP = SFTPStorage() # <- this is where the magic happens
if SFTP.exists(path):
file = SFTP._read(path)
type, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(path)
response = HttpResponse(file, content_type=type)
response['Content-Disposition'] = u'attachment; filename="{filename}"'.format(filename=path)
except PermissionError:
pass
return response
which works fine, but obviously it opens a new connection every time a website call is issued which I don't want (it also crashes after 3 reloads or something, I think it has to many parallel connections by then). So I tried just opening one connection to the Server via SFTP by moving the SFTP = SFTPStorage()-initialization into the __init__()-method which is just called once:
import mimetypes
from storages.backends.sftpstorage import SFTPStorage
from django.http import HttpResponse
from storages.backends.sftpstorage import SFTPStorage
class SFTPMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
self.SFTP = SFTPStorage() # <- this is where the magic happens
def __call__(self, request):
# Code to be executed for each request before
# the view (and later middleware) are called.
response = self.get_response(request)
try:
path = request.get_full_path()
if self.SFTP.exists(path):
file = self.SFTP._read(path)
type, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(path)
response = HttpResponse(file, content_type=type)
response['Content-Disposition'] = u'attachment; filename="{filename}"'.format(filename=path)
except PermissionError:
pass
return response
But this implementation doesn't seem to work, the program is stuck either before the SFTP.exists() or after the SFTP._read() methods.
Can anybody tell me how to fix this problem? Or does anybody even have a better idea as to how to tackle this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Kingrimursel