Thanks for your reply Anthony. That bit is actually working fine. I have put the album folder deliberately in web2py rather than within the application. This makes it easier to backup the application or the albums independently.
I will explain my problem with an example. If I have a url .../default/my_download/abc.mp3?album=def&filename=ghi.mp3 Then it does correctly download web2py/albums/def/ghi.mp3 The popup for the user say 'do you want to open or save "abc.mp3" So the filename for the message comes from the first argument of my_downloads. As you can see I do not mention args(0) in my routine, so stream or something below must be accessing args(0). It is this that I cannot change. I would like abc.mp3 to come from one of the 'vars' rather than the 'args' (because the args are more restrictive about characters). Thanks Peter On Aug 12, 8:08 pm, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, August 12, 2011 5:24:24 AM UTC-4, peter wrote: > > > path=os.getcwd()+"/"+'albums'+"/"+request.vars.album > > +"/"+request.vars.filename > > os.getcwd() refers to the web2py folder, not your application folder. > Assuming the 'albums' folder is in your application folder, you can instead > use request.folder. Also, you should use os.path.join instead of > concatenating the path together. Try: > > path=os.path.join(request.folder,'albums',request.vars.album,request.vars.filename) > > Anthony
