What is the HTML code generated in this case? Have you verified that you
can successfully download the file in question at your URL?
Anthony
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 11:08:57 AM UTC-5, sasogeek wrote:
>
> in db.py, the table status is defined as follows
> db.define_table(
> 'status',
> Field('status', 'text'),
> Field('file', 'upload'),
> Field('userid'),
> )
>
> and in default.py, the download function is defined as
> def download():
> """
> allows downloading of uploaded files
> http://..../[app]/default/download/[filename]
> """
> return response.download(request, db)
>
> just like in the tutorial book.
> and in the views, i have this code
>
> {{from gluon.contrib.autolinks import expand_one}}
> ...
> {{updates=db().select(db.status.ALL, orderby=~db.status.id)}}
> {{if updates:}}
> {{for update in updates:}}
> {{=XML(expand_one(URL('download',
> args=update.file,),cache.ram('mycache',lambda:dict(),3600)))}}
> {{pass}}
> {{pass}}
>
>
> if update.file is an image, it works fine and the image is rendered just
> fine, but when it's a pdf, it doesn't work, I get this error
> Sorry, we were unable to find the document at the original source. Verify
> that the document still exists. You can also try to download the original
> document by clicking here
>
> When I click on the link that says "here", it opens a google docs page in
> a new window with the same error statement in it.... how do i fix this?
>
>
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