[Zope] opinions needed on methods for file download...

Tony McDonald tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:26:55 +0100


At 8:35 am +0100 27/7/99, Phil Harris wrote:
>Tone,
>
>There is header you can send which sets the 'real' name of the file to be
>downloaded.
>
>I've seen this discussed on the PHP list quite recently, might be worth
>doing a search there.
>
>HTH
>
>Phil
>
Magic Phil!

The correct header is Content-disposition

doing
         RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type', mimetype)
         RESPONSE.setHeader('content-disposition', 'filename=%s' % filename)

in my external method, the system tries to save the downloaded file 
as 'filename'

thanks
tone
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