On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:35 AM, peter <peterchutchin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) >>
Does this actually work for you? When I use this code, I get a download, but it saves out a zero byte file with the proper name. >> 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 -
