On Monday 10 May 2004 06:25 pm, Jason C. Leach wrote:

Hi, is it possible to get BLOB data from a MySQL DB and send it as a file to a user? I would like to store several PDFs this way. Linking to them on the HDD is not really an option.

Sure, just direct the user to a python script that calls ZSQL to get the data and returns the unadorned BLOB data (i.e. as a string). e.g. the python script looks something like this (takes one argument "recid" in this example, which is supposed to identify the correct record in MySQL): pdf_recordlist = context.get_pdf_file_record(recid='foo') # call a ZSQL method to get the record if len(pdf_recordlist) > 0: pdf_data = pdf_recordlist[0].fulltext # the BLOB is the "fulltext" field else: pdf_data = '' return pdf_data That sort of thing. HTH, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com