Not sure, but perhaps you need quotes around the file name to avoid having
the user agent terminate the filename on space? E.g.;
..."attachement; filename=" + '"' + rep_setup......+ '.xlsx"'
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:27 AM, DJ-Tom <eventel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm serving files via HttpResponse and currently I'm struggling with
> spaces in the filenames.
>
> This is how I contruct the response header:
>
> response = HttpResponse(report.reportfile.chunks(),
> mimetype="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet")
> response['Content-Disposition'] = "attachment; filename=" + *
> rep_setup.name.encode("ASCII")* + "." +
> report.date_run.strftime("%Y-%m-%d.%H%M") + ".xlsx"
> report.reportfile.close()
> return response
>
> But if rep_setup.filename contains spaces, the browser (Firefox) truncates
> the filename at that position.
>
> I tried to use django.utils.http.urlqoute(), but a filename like this
> looks just ugly: Some%20long%20Filename%20with%20Spaces.xlsx
>
> Or should I just replace all Spaces with a underscore "_" character?
>
> What is the technically correct way?
>
> Thomas
>
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