Ok, I found the answer: I was using mailing list posts from a mixture of TurboGears 1 and 2, but this is how to use custom MIME-Types in turbogears 2:
http://turbogears.org/2.0/docs/main/ResponseTypes.html Thanks all! On Aug 2, 9:40 am, Adrian <[email protected]> wrote: > Oops! Thanks for the response, and that was a silly typo... > > I put it in its own module because there is a fair amount of stuff > done to generate the file that I want to return. > > I'm having a problem now with the Content Type not being properly set > - the file is a FITS file (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/ > fits.html), but it is being downloaded by browsers as an HTML file. I > changed the code from what is above to using pylons: > > pylons.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/fits' > pylons.response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; > filename="spSpec.fits" > > This doesn't seem to set the content type properly - is there a > correct way to do it? > > Thanks! > > On Jul 29, 5:14 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Am 29.07.2010 um 22:43 schrieb Adrian: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've been following some posts in the mailing list about specifying a > > > custom content type, but I can't get this (seemingly) simple code to > > > work. For my purposes, I want to be able to return a FITS file - but > > > just to test I have the following code in my controller: > > > > **some imports up here** > > > __all__ = ['ReturnSpSpecController'] > > > > class ReturnSpSpecController: > > > > �...@expose() > > > def index(self, **kwargs): > > > #tg.response.set_header("content-type", "application/fits") > > > <-- > > > eventually what I want > > > tg.response.set_header("content-type", "text/html") # But I > > > wanted > > > to test this with a simple example > > > return "\n\nTesting, hello world." > > > > Then in root.py I have the standard: > > > from spectrawebapp.controllers.returnSpSpec import > > > ReturnSpSpecController > > > [...] > > > class RootController(BaseController): > > > [...] > > > returnSpSpecController = ReturnSpSpecController() > > > [...] > > > > However, when I try to go tohttp://mypage/returnSpSpecIget a 404 > > > not found. > > > Which is to be expected when you bind the ReturnSpSpecController() > > under the name "returnSpSpecController", but then only ask for > > "returnSpSpec". > > > Either change the line to > > > returnSpSpec = ReturnSpSpecController() > > > or maybe even better, forego the sub-controller (unless you want other > > methods in it), and just add a returnSpSpec-action to the root > > controller. > > > Diez -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en.
