A zip file is written in 'download_data' and nothing happens upon returning.
Please indicate what is missing in the following ajax call and / or controller function to spawn the zip file download. jQuery.ajax({method:'get',url:'{{=URL('download_data')}}', data:fileIDs, success: function(){} }); __ def download_data(): vars = request.get_vars fileIDs = vars.values() import zipfile import cStringIO import contenttype as c zf = zipfile.ZipFile('data download.zip', mode='w') try: for file_id in fileIDs: file = db.files[file_id].file fileLoc = db.files.file.retrieve_file_properties(file)['path'] + '/' + file displayName = db.files[file_id].file_name zf.write(fileLoc, displayName) finally: zf.close() s=cStringIO.StringIO() zipfile = open('data download.zip','r') s.write(zipfile.read()) response.headers['Content-Type'] = c.contenttype(filename) response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = "attachment; filename=%s" % filename return s.getvalue() -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.