If I now do exactly what I did one month ago, there is now no error with zip streaming. So maybe you have changed things in response.stream since then.
Peter On Oct 14, 1:24 pm, peter <peterchutchin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I sent from my wifes > emailhttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/fe85dca9e4... > > However with hindsight I think I did not give sufficient information > in my forum entry. I guess I was seeing if other people had had > problems with downloading zip files. > > Today, I just tried the following > > def downloady(): > > import os > import contenttype as c > path="somepath/album.zip" > response.headers['Content-Type'] = c.contenttype(path) > response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; > filename=album.zip'# to force download as attachment > > return response.stream(open(path,'rb'),chunk_size=4096) > > and this did work correctly. So I do not know why I was having > problems last month, when I repeatedly had problems with downloaded > zip files not unzipping. > > So I aplogise for suggesting there was a bug here. I will see if I can > recreate the problems I was having and get to the root cause. > > Peter > > On Oct 14, 12:22 am, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > On Oct 13, 12:46 pm, peter <peterchutchin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > As I have reported previously in this forum, I think that > > > response.stream does not quite stream zip files correctly. > > > I have no bug report about this. Can you tell us more so we can fix it?- > > Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
