On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:11 PM, m h <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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,
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