Sorry guys, I found that I was not reading the file in binary mode. sorry for the bother... AM Aseem Mohanty wrote:
Hi, I am creating a zip file on the fly on the local file system and sending it back to the browser via an external method. This the following that I do for that (thanks to Jan and Chris M.):
zip_size = stat(zip_file_name+'.zip')[ST_SIZE] zip_file = open(zip_file_name+'.zip') zip_data = zip_file.read() zip_file.close() REQUEST.RESPONSE.setStatus('OK') REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type','application/zip') REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Length',zip_size) REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Disposition','inline; filename='+project_name+'.zip') return zip_data
Everything works perfectly .... EXCEPT :
the file size, when I look up up the properties of the downloaded file, it says its 595 bytes in size but size on disk is 4K (which is correct)... Of course since the file size is screwed up my zip utility goes nuts!!! After some minor tinkering I found that...
the stat.ST_SIZE is not the same as len(zip_file.read()) stat.ST_SIZE = 4k (correct) len(zip_file.read()) = 595 b (why ... oh why...)
what is going on here?? shouldnt they be the same?? any pointers .... anybody?? TIA AM
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