[Zope] Renaming File Before Download

Robert Rottermann robert at redcor.ch
Wed Nov 24 14:32:43 EST 2004


David Siedband wrote:
> In one of the web apps I'm working on, users upload files into a LocalFS 
> directory.  The python upload script renames the files so that the files 
> name is unique, and based on the corresponding unique ID of it's 
> metadata in my database.  Though now when people download the files they 
> have names like 14201.pdf  instead of the original filename.  Is there a 
> way I can rename the file back to it's original name (stored in the db) 
> upon download?
> -- 
why dont you just attach your unique name to the old name instead of 
replacing it.So it is still unique, and you can then rename the file 
back befor download.
robert



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