I'm having a strange issue with a static file download. In the static
folder I have a file with an xlsm extension, which I want users to be able
to download via a hyperlink, which is created in the controller like so:
report_file_name = "DESIGN_SPEND_VS_ESTIMATE.xlsm"
...
DIV(P(A('Download report: %s' % report_file_name,
_href=URL(r=request,c='static/downloads',f=report_file_name)))),
...
This creates a download link which works fine in Google chrome, Fine in
IE9, but not in IE8, where it tries to download the file with a .xlsx
extension, which Excel cannot open, so it looks like I'm serving a corrupt
file, which I'm not.
I've read up on this and aside from the really useful advice of telling me
not to use IE8 (the default browser in my client's, the only pointer I get
is that it may be to do with MIME type sniffing in IE, and that I need to
change .htaccess settings on the server, which is equally useless to me as
I might not always be in control of the server. As it turns out, this app
runs on rocket on Windows, and there's nothing in the rocket docs about
mime types, and I don't know if setting a .htaccess would even work on
Windows.
Any thoughts?
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