Thanks for your informative responses Anthony. I will do some exploring when I get a chance.
The URL I gave in the example happens behind the scenes, so it does not get displayed to the user. But your comments about security are useful. Peter On Aug 15, 7:08 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2011 11:08:10 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > > > On Monday, August 15, 2011 6:09:00 AM UTC-4, peter wrote: > > >> If I have a url > > >> .../default/my_download/abc.mp3?album=def&filename=ghi.mp3 > > >> Then it does correctly download web2py/albums/def/ghi.mp3 > > >> The popup for the user say 'do you want to open or save "abc.mp3" > > > I'm not sure web2py is doing anything to affect that -- I think it's > > probably the browser -- when it receives the audio stream, it assumes the > > name is the last part of the URL before the query string. You might be able > > to fix that by setting the Content-Dispostion header > > > response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'inline; filename=%s' % > > request.vars.filename # for streaming > > > response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=%s' % > > request.vars.filename # to force download as attachment > > Note, I'm not sure specifying 'filename' has any effect with 'inline'. Also, > you may need to url encode the filename before adding it to the header. > > Anthony- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
