[Zope] Hacking filenames in http headers?

[Dieter Maurer]

Garikoitz Araolaza writes:
 > I'm using a DTML method to get an XML view from a ZClass object.
 > 
 > What I'm trying to do, is that when the user requests the address:
 > 
 > http://www.mysite.com/Objects/MyObject/xml
 > 
 > he/she gets an xml file with the ID  MyObject.xml so that he can save it 
 > cleanly in his filesystem (or open it with his browser), so that he/she 
 > doesn't end up having thousands of files called simply 'xml'.
 > 
 > I've thought that a header like:
 > 
 > <dtml-call "RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type', 'text/xml')">
 > 
 > could be a solution if HTTP protocol would have it... But I also think that 
 > it wouldn't be very clear for HTTP protocol to have one filename for the 
 > URL and a different one for the reply to the user.
Search for "Content-Disposition".

This header will usually work but rumours say some browsers (e.g. IE)
not always honour it.


Dieter