Hi Rowan, You have to set the request headers correctly. Look in the "download"-method of the FileField (Field.py) in the Archetypes product for an example.
Cheers, -Tom Rowan Woodhouse wrote: > Hi, > > I need to generate a download file on the fly (it's an excel spread sheet > with content drawn from a database) but I'm having some difficulty working > out the best way to do this. > > At the moment I've got an Archetype based product that has a FileField in > the schema. So far I've been attempting to work out a way to create the > correct sort of accessor so that the generated file is never saved in Zope > itself (at the moment I just get the file coming over as plain text mime > type). Is this the best approach? If so could someone point me in the > correct direction on how to wrap the file correctly so that it downloads > correctly instead of coming over as a plain text file? If not could someone > point me in a more sensible direction? > > Regards, > Rowan _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
