Hi Dieter, Thanks for your quick response and solution. It's a great relief to have it working OK for Firefox too!
With regards, Ria > -----Original Message----- > From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 May 2006 22:19 > To: Marinussen, M.J. (Ria) > Cc: zope@zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] problem opening pdf-files with firefox in > LocalFS folders onZope > > Marinussen, M.J. (Ria) wrote at 2006-5-4 09:52 +0200: > >I've got Zope 2.8.5 installed with LocalFS version > LocalFS-1-3-andreas > >on Solaris (SunOs 5.8, I'm not sure which version number of solaris > >that > >is...) > > > >When I place pdf-files in the LocalFS directories, sometimes > they open > >correctly, but most of the time they open as text-file when using > >Firefox. > > A bug in "LocalFS". > > In our local copy, I fixed it this way (in > "LocalFS/StreamingFile.py"): > > class StreamingFile(File): > .... > # DM 2005-11-07 > # funny that we should not need a "Content-Type" header > # when the file is sufficiently small? > if RESPONSE is not None: > # DM 2005-11-18: support for 'if_modified_since' > and range requests > if > self._if_modified_since_request_handler(REQUEST, RESPONSE): > # we were able to handle this by returning a 304 > return '' > if self._range_request_handler(REQUEST, RESPONSE): > # we served a chunk of content in response to > a range request. > return '' > RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', self.content_type) > #DM 2005-11-17: 'Last-Modified' support > RESPONSE.setHeader( > 'Last-Modified', > rfc1123_date(stat(self._local_path)[8]) > ) > # DM 2005-11-18: support for range requests > RESPONSE.setHeader('Accept-Ranges', 'bytes') > threshold = 2 << 16 # 128 kb > if self.size < threshold or RESPONSE is None: > try: > f = open(self._local_path, 'rb') > return f.read() > finally: > f.close() > else: > RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Length', self.size) > # DM 2005-11-07: moved outside the "if" > #RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', self.content_type) > return filestream_iterator(self._local_path, 'rb') > > > The fix also provides "if-modified-since" and "if-ranges". > > > >With other browsers (Internet Explorer, Opera) this problem does not > >occur. > > They ignore the (wrong) "Content-Type" and look on the > filename extension. > > > -- > Dieter > _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )