Ian Charnas wrote:
> Many of you have probably noticed that sometimes on the internet when
> you click on a link, a "Download File" dialog box appears without the
> page refreshing. You may even know that this is a special feature of
> HTTP that allows for attachments. This is also how most sites do
> "automatic downloads".
>
> Like I said this is an HTTP feature. All you have to do is set the
> "Content-Type" header to "application/x-download" and the
> "Content-Disposition" header to indicate an attachment.
>
> [this might be good for the TG documentation section]
Indeed. CherryPy 3 has a helper for this in lib/static:
def serve_download(path, name=None):
"""Serve 'path' as an application/x-download attachment."""
# This is such a common idiom I felt it deserved its own wrapper.
return serve_file(path, "application/x-download", "attachment",
name)
Robert Brewer
System Architect
Amor Ministries
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