Python & CGI. HELP please...

[Graeme Matthew]

I scratching my head and thinking back to when I did this in perl, cant you
just:

print "Content-Type: application/pdf\n\n"   #you need 2 returns here

#read file as binary and print to screen
#lets say read file into a variable called content
print content

>                 print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=%s\n" %

"Jay Dorsey" <jay at jaydorsey.com> wrote in message
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> On Thursday 05 June 2003 05:57, Enrico Morelli wrote:
>
> Have you tried opening the file up before you write the headers, so you
can
> obtain the length, then specifying a "Content-length: %d" % len(l) in the
> headers?
>
> Jay
>
> > I'm trying to write a script to be able to download/upload files
> > through web pages.
> > The upload script works fine but the download no.
> > When I download a file (pdf for example) using this script, I'm unable
> > to open it in local using acroread because at the end of the document I
> > found some html rows :-||
> > These rows are some html code inside of the script that I use to
> > display errors.
> >
> > Follow the method that I use to download files:
> >
> > def download(self, fullname, file):
> >                 print "Content-Type: application/download"
> >                 print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=%s\n" %
> > file try:
> >                         f=open(fullname, "rb")
> >                         l=f.read()
> >                         sys.stdout.write(l)
> >                         f.close()
> >                         sys.exit()
> >                 except:
> >                         msg="An error occurred during file transfer."
> >                         Display(msg, "")
> >                         sys.exit()
>
> --
> Jay Dorsey
> jay at jay dorsey dot com
>
>