On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Krishnakant Mane <[email protected]> wrote:
> hello all,
> a few days back i had asked a doubt on this mailing list about rendering a
> pdf file to the browser from a pylons control action.
> The solution came in form of paste.fileapp() function which is to be
> included before the return statement in a controler action.
> I know it takes care of the return mime type etc.
> While it was clear that pdf would work well, I am still unsure if it will do
> the same for ODS files.
> I don't want to render xls files because it is a proprietory format and can
> be outdated any time.
> So I wish to only make use of the odf format and will like to know How I can
> return an ods spreadsheet using fileapp or any thing else.
> I can make sure that my client has open office installed so that is no
> problem.
> the only issue is to render the file to the browser and set the correct
> headers like content type.

If you pass a 'content_type' keyword arg to the constructor, it will
override the guessed type. Same for 'content_encoding'.  See
FileApp.__init__ .

-- 
Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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