[Zope] download a file in a specific folder in the filesystem

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan" <alanwilter at gmail.com>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Zope] download a file in a specific folder in the 
filesystem


> Hi! Thanks for your replies.
>
> But for what I want LocalFS or ExtFile sounds too much, specially
> because I just need to download. Either, I did not realise yet well
> what Richard purposed... However, I tried that:
>
> with a external method
>   fname = os.path.join(jobdir,'results.zip')
>   file = open(fname,'rb').read()
>   return file
>
> but instead of having the file downloaded, it is printed in my
> browser, as if it was a ascii file. I guess I need to add a mime type
> property here, but I am running out of ideas.

Try googling:

response.setheader content-type
response.setheader content-disposition



Jonathan