I used 
 def writeHTML(self):
  self.response().setHeader('Content-Disposition','attachment;filename=Report.xls')
  self.response().setHeader('content-type', 'application/vnd.ms-excel')

before I generate and send an excel file
Thanks,
-Aaron
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Bicking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Federico Di Gregorio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Webware-devel] mime type of served documents


> UnknownFileTypeServlet.py seems to already do this.
> 
> 
>                         filetype = mimetypes.guess_type(filename)
>                         mimeType = filetype[0]
>                         mimeEncoding = filetype[1]
> 
>                         if mimeType==None:
>                                 mimeType = 'text/html'  # @@ 2000-01-27 ce: should 
>this just be text?
>                         response.setHeader('Content-type', mimeType)
> 
> 
> If that's not working for you, maybe you need to give the mimetypes
> module a hint on your filetypes.  You would want to update your
> mime.types file.
> 
> On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 11:00, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > i didn't found a way to tell webware to set the correct mime type for
> > served files (my problem is that css are server as text/html and not as
> > text/css). i missed something or should i write the equivalent of
> > mod_mime for webware? from were to start in that case? (and no, having a
> > separate directory and serving files from there with apache is not an
> > option, it is a kludge.)
> > 
> > ciao,
> > federico
> > 
> > -- 
> > Federico Di Gregorio
> > Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >   99.99999999999999999999% still isn't 100% but sometimes suffice. -- Me
> 
> 
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