[Zope] Re: MSIE 6 not opening MIME attachments

[Gilles Lenfant]

> "Jim Kutter" <jim at ebizq.net> a écrit dans le message de
news:EBA064F73335E9479B473032FE5CBCEBCE0975 at cmburns.ebizq.net...
> I'm trying to send a CSV via a python script. My problem is in IE 6, if
> the user clicks on "Open" instead of save from the dialog that appears,
> Excel will launch, but not find the file in the Temporary Internet Files
> folder. Clicking on "Save" then opening the file manually works just
> fine.
>
> Is this a problem with my response headers or an IE bug?
>
> Here are the headers I'm sending:
>
> response.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/csv')
> response.setHeader('Content-Length', len(printed))
> response.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename=%s' %
> filename)
>
> return printed

Hi Jim,

This works for me...

RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/comma-separated-values;
charset=ISO-8859-1')
RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachement;
filename=sometable.csv')

... even when omiting 'Content-Length' header.

Hope this helps

--
Gilles