POST processing/mime problem

[Gary Pennington]

Hi,

I've written some CGI code in Python to serve up a file in response to a
POST request from a browser.

I'm trying to do something like this :-

            zipFile=open("da200.zip","rb")
            dataObj=zipFile.read()
            zipFile.close()
            print "Content-Type: application/zip\n"
            print dataObj

The browser picks up the response and correctly identifies that it is an
application/zip data stream. However, I then have two problems.

1. The file is corrupted at the client. It is larger and thus I guess
that the browser has done a CRLF transform on the data or something like
that. How do I stop this happening?

2. The script is called download.cgi and the dialog popped up by
Netscape prompts you to save the downloaded file as download.cgi. How do
I control this behaviour? Is there a header which you can send to
specify the suggested file name?

I know these aren't really Python questions, but all the code is Python.
Any suggestions gratefully received.

Yours,

Gary