"Fred Pacquier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I'm trying to do is a simplified download manager of sorts -
> based on the WebKit Admin pages examples. Think of a list of files
> (on the server) with checkboxes (like the page where you reload
> modules in Admin), protected by a SecurePage login. I'd like the
> user to be able to tick off a few files, press the "download" button,
> and have the corresponding "Save as..." dialog(s) open in her
> browser.
I'm not sure how you'd download several files at a time, but doing one
file is fairly easy -- if you want, you could zip several files and
download the zip file to the user.
To download the files, you want a MIME type that the web browser can't
display. Set the header
Content-type: application/octet-stream
which means random sequence of bytes, basically. application/zip for
zips, application/gzip for gzip, etc., would also work well.
To actually download the file you can simply open the file and write
it, e.g.:
f = open(filename)
self.write(f.read())
f.close()
Ian
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