Hi Casey, Did you get the code I sent you? I already have a solution from Gregor Heine similar to the one described below. It is in the "download" method in Document.py. It works too. Regards, Simon.

-----Original Message----- From: Casey Duncan [mailto:cduncan@kaivo.com] Sent: 12 June 2001 16:16 To: Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK] Cc: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] How to return downloadable content from Python Method

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"Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK]" wrote:

I am compressing files which need to be uncompressed inline before download. The DTML <href=...> calles a python method in the product which returns the uncompressed file data. Say this file is an MSWord document, how do I return this as a file to download? Presently, the browser just tries to display the binary file and makes a mess of it.

Regards, Simon B.

It probably is not setting the content-type header. Add something like this to the method that returns the data:

RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', self.content_type)

Where content_type is set to the MIME type of the data, which for MSWord is 'application/msword' -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>