Python & CGI. HELP please...

[Enrico Morelli]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 07:54:26 -0400, Jay Dorsey wrote:

> 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
> 

You are ready. I rewrite the method as follow and seems to be works:
Thanks a lot.

def download(self, fullname, file):
		try:
                        f=open(fullname,"r").read()
                        print 'Content-type: application/octet-stream; name="%s"' % file
                        print 'Content-Disposition: inline; filename="%s"' % file
                        print 'Content-length: %s' % len(f)
                        print
                        sys.stdout.write(f)
                except:
                        msg="An error occurred during file transfer."
                        Display(msg, "")
                        sys.exit()

>> 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()