RE: [Zope] problem opening pdf-files with firefox in LocalFS folders onZope

8 May 2006

      Hi Dieter,

Thanks for your quick response and solution.
It's a great relief to have it working OK for Firefox too!

With regards,
Ria
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de] 
Sent: 05 May 2006 22:19
To: Marinussen, M.J. (Ria)
Cc: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] problem opening pdf-files with firefox in 
LocalFS folders onZope
Marinussen, M.J. (Ria) wrote at 2006-5-4 09:52 +0200:
...
I've got Zope 2.8.5 installed with LocalFS version 
LocalFS-1-3-andreas 
on Solaris (SunOs 5.8, I'm not sure which version number of solaris 
that
is...)
When I place pdf-files in the LocalFS directories, sometimes 
they open 
correctly, but most of the time they open as text-file when using 
Firefox.
A bug in "LocalFS".
In our local copy, I fixed it this way (in 
"LocalFS/StreamingFile.py"):
class StreamingFile(File):
    ....
        # DM 2005-11-07
        #  funny that we should not need a "Content-Type" header
        #  when the file is sufficiently small?
        if RESPONSE is not None:
            # DM 2005-11-18: support for 'if_modified_since' 
and range requests
            if 
self._if_modified_since_request_handler(REQUEST, RESPONSE):
                # we were able to handle this by returning a 304
                return ''
            if self._range_request_handler(REQUEST, RESPONSE):
                # we served a chunk of content in response to 
a range request.
                return ''
      RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', self.content_type)
            #DM 2005-11-17: 'Last-Modified' support
      RESPONSE.setHeader(
        'Last-Modified',
        rfc1123_date(stat(self._local_path)[8])
        )
            # DM 2005-11-18: support for range requests
      RESPONSE.setHeader('Accept-Ranges', 'bytes')
  threshold = 2 << 16 # 128 kb
  if self.size < threshold or RESPONSE is None:
      try:
      f = open(self._local_path, 'rb')
      return f.read()
      finally:
      f.close()
  else:
      RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Length', self.size)
            # DM 2005-11-07: moved outside the "if"
      #RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', self.content_type)
      return filestream_iterator(self._local_path, 'rb')
The fix also provides "if-modified-since" and "if-ranges".
...
With other browsers (Internet Explorer, Opera) this problem does not 
occur.
They ignore the (wrong) "Content-Type" and look on the 
filename extension.
--
Dieter