On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM, mk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm a beginner with Pylons and am trying to set the filename of a file
> to download in an action (that is, controller method):
>
> def environ3(self):
> msg = list(request.environ.items())
> msg = [ str(el[0]) + " " + str(el[1]) for el in msg ]
> msg.sort()
> msg = "<br>\n".join(msg)
> fname = r'C:\Documents and
> Settings\Administrator\HelloWorld\helloworld\controllers\re.txt'
> fapp = fileapp.FileApp(fname, content_type="text/plain",
> Content_Disposition="attachment; filename=re.txt")
> fapp.set_content(msg)
> retval = fapp(request.environ, self.start_response)
> return retval
>
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1. why doesn't fapp.set_content method work? It silently quits, but the
> actual file downloaded has contents of the file on the disk, not the
> string I pass to the set_content method.
>
> Is there a way to pass the string to have it sent to the browser as
> file? If I set response.content_type to e.g. "application/zip" and
> return the string in the controller, the file with that content gets
> sent, except it has wrong name. Is there a way to set it?
>
> 2. Is there a simpler way to send the desired file with desired name and
> MIME type? To be frank, the above is a bit of rigmarole.
>
> thanks in advance,
> Marcin
>
Here's what I'm using:
response.headers["content-type"] = "application/vnd.ms-excel"
response.headers["Content-Disposition"] = "attachment;
filename=%s" % xls_filename
cheers,
-matt
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