Hi Aseem, These headers are set by an app I worked on (although I didn't do the zipfile-download-thingy myself). Hope these work for you too... REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/zip') REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Length', file_size) REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'inline; filename=%s' % the_name_of_the_file) Another difference: the download method in aformentioned app does not "REQUEST.RESPONSE.write(data)", but just "returns" the data, after setting the headers. regards, jw -- Jan-Wijbrand Kolman jw@infrae.com On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 10:01 , Aseem Mohanty wrote:
Hi, I have a zip file that I create on the fly which is to be returned to the user. The process goes like this:
1. User clicks on a link. 2. External method creates a zip file and puts it in a temp folder ( file system folder not Zope temp) 3. External method (same one) returns the zip file as part of response as type application/x-zip
The following is what I do in to get it done:(part 3 i.e.)
zip_size = stat(zip_file_name).st_size zip_file = open(zip_file_name) zip_data = zip_file.read() zip_file.close() REQUEST.RESPONSE.setStatus('OK') REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type','application/x-zip') REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Length',zip_size) REQUEST.RESPONSE.write(zip_data)
but when I try it out the following happens: - the zip file is created - zip_data has the data (of course) - i am prompted to download something of type application/x-unknown-content - if i save the file it has zero length
so what am I doing wrong or not doing here, that needs to be done to get this right?? TIA AM
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