On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Andi Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Jorge Vargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Andi Albrecht >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Jorge Vargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Helio Pereira >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all >>>>> >>>>> I have this in my controller to control all important downloads in >>>>> tg2: http://paste.turbogears.org/paste/15338 >>>>> Is this the best way to do it? >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks for all, >>>>> Helio Pereira >>>>> >>>> that works although you may want to take a look at paste.fileapp, as >>>> it is more robust sending headers for modified and such. Here is an >>>> example. >>>> http://paste.chrisarndt.de/paste/99e8dbf02a4e4af5bd365ef722de2c69?wrap=no >>>> >>>> docs for fileapp are thin http://pythonpaste.org/modules/fileapp.html >>>> but if you look at the code it's far more robust than your custom >>>> implementation. You may also want to take a look at DirectoryApp. >>> >>> hm, I've just worked on a similar controller today using TG1.0.X but I >>> had two problems with the approach mentioned in the docs >>> (http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/FileUploadTutorial#add-the-download-method) >>> which looks very similar to the example from above. >>> >> I don't have an answer but some comments. >> >>> The first thing is that the files I have to deliver are stored in the >>> database and it looks like that both functions expect the file >>> somewhere in the file system. >> I have never liked that approach is there a reason for you to store >> files in the db? > > I don't like it too, but the reason for this is quite simple: It's a > legacy database and partially synced with another legacy database and > both store files as blobs... > >>> I had a quick look at the CP sources and >>> it seems that there's no handy function that sets proper headers when >>> using file-like objects. I don't know the sources for fileapp, but >>> according to the example above it should be similar. >>> >> I don't know about CP. > sorry, I was talking about CherryPy > >> >>> The other thing is more a question than a "real" problem. Shouldn't be >>> the filename in the Content-Disposition header encoded according to >>> RFC 2231 if it contains characters other than US_ASCII? AFAICT >>> serve_file() don't handle that case, but at least I'm not sure if it's >>> really required to follow RFC 2231... >>> >>> Does anyone know a convenient way to server files (possibly with >>> non-US_ASCII chars in the file name) stored in a database with >>> automagically good-looking headers for TurboGears 1.0? >>> >> This isn't a great idea, most systems/people know nothing about >> unicode so sending files with non-us characters in their file name >> isn't the best idea. it may confuse your users. > > That's an interesting point. I've made opposite experiences with my > application which is focussed on a German speaking audience. Users > complained about broken non-us characters when downloading files (of > course, it was a Internet Explorer only problem as far as I could > remember), even paraphrasing them e.g. with the two letter replacement > for german umlauts was confusing. > I guess is a location thing, people in latin america aren't used to seeing files with accents or ñ even though that's common in the language, it may be a result of our lack of a decent IT community in general or maybe just ignorance. But I can see how in german this is a must, while in spanish is not that bad.
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