Tone, There is header you can send which sets the 'real' name of the file to be downloaded. I've seen this discussed on the PHP list quite recently, might be worth doing a search there. HTH Phil phil@philh.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony McDonald <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk> To: Zope List <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 11:14 AM Subject: [Zope] opinions needed on methods for file download...

Hi, I have a situation where I have a lot of files in a unix directory. They are all 'labelled up' in an SQL database which holds data such as filename, date_uploaded, owner, version and mimetype.

The output DTML is similar to this at the moment, where log_entries is some SQL that returns filename, mimetype and idnum, whilst dump_file is a simple external method that puts the right content-type header on the data and reads it out to the browser.

<dtml-in log_entries> <tr> <td><a href=dump_file?filename=<dtml-var filename url_quote>&mimetype=<dtml-var mimetype url_quote>><dtml-var idnum></a></td> <td><dtml-var filename></td> <td><dtml-var mimetype></td> <td><dtml-var owner></td> <td><dtml-var uploaded></td> </tr> </dtml-in>

The problem is that the URLs are really clunky and the file download name is always 'dump_file'. Does anyone have any other thoughts on how this might work? cheers tone

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