[Zope] Content-Disposition

[Richard Wesley]

At 12:01 AM +0200 4/19/02, Dieter Maurer wrote:
>Richard Wesley writes:
>  > I am not having any luck trying to download some script-generated
>  > text from a browser (IE5/Mac in this case).  When I try the following
>  > in a python method:
>  >
>  > request.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachment;
>  > filename=file.txt')
>  > print 'Hello, filesystem!'
>  > return printed
>
>It might help to use
>
>    RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type','application')
>
>in addition.

Yeah, I set it to 'text/x-my-type' and that seemed to slap it around enough.

>Some browsers are known to ignore this header and stubbornly look
>at the filename. In this case, you might need to drop the ".txt"
>extension.

Good point.

- rmgw

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