[Zope] - RESPONSE.headers Help needed

[Andy Smith]

Just checked this with Netscape and there was no problem. Zope and NS are
doing the right thing, it's IE that's fouling up.

Cheers,

Andy.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:Brian@digicool.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 10:05 AM
> To: 'Andy Smith'; Zope; Jim Fulton
> Subject: RE: [Zope] - RESPONSE.headers Help needed
>
>
> > To return to an old thread....I've been trying to achieve the
> > equivalent of
> > the code below in DTML. Since you can't make assignments in
> > DTML, I've been
> > trying the following....
> >
> > <!--#call
> > "_['RESPONSE'].setHeader('Content-Type','application.binary')"-->
> > <!--#call
> > "_['RESPONSE'].setHeader('Content-Disposition','inline;filenam
> > e=phoneBook.cs
> > v')"-->
> >
> > IE4 opens up a window and looks as if it's about to download
> > a file, but
> > then the message ...
> >
> > 'The downloaded files is not available. This could be due to
> > Security or
> > Language settings or because the server was unable to
> > retrieve the selected
> > file'. I've tried text/csv as the Content-Type as well and
> > get the same
> > error.
> >
> > It also says that it's trying to download the name of the document,
> > 'displayAll' and not the desired filename, 'phoneBook.csv'
> >
> > Anyone any ideas?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andy.
>
> I seem to remember Paul finding that IE choked on downloads
> with Content-Disposition headers -- have you tried using
> Netscape to download this? We never found a way around IE's
> problem that I know of, though I believe we found that NS
> handled the situation correctly...
>
>
> Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
> Software Engineer  540.371.6909
> Digital Creations  http://www.digicool.com
>