-----Original Message----- From: Pavlos Christoforou [mailto:pavlos@gaaros.msrc.sunysb.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 12:40 To: Jay, Dylan Cc: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: Re: [Zope] URGENT: Serving a File object from an external method.

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Jay, Dylan wrote:

If your external method is responsible of returning the binary file then something like this might work:

def generateFile(self,RESPONSE): ' ' RESPONSE['content-type']='application/octet-stream' bin_data=generate_data() ## the generating function return bin_data

Thanks, that worked. I mis-understood the way serving up an object worked.