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Greennnnn
Greennnnn

Reputation: 15

Nodejs write files

I have a problem with nodejs. Im now making a server that will serve the files requested by the users. What I did:

The problem now is that I want that the user download the file, but if I write a .txt file, the pipe method write the content of the file in the browser... So, I tried with a .pdf, but in this case the web page keep loading and nothing happen... Can someone help?

if(exists) {

        response.writeHead(302, {"Content-type":'text/plain'});

        var stat = fs.statSync(pathname);

        if(stat.isFile()) {
            var stream = fs.createReadStream(pathname);
            stream.pipe(response);
        } else {
            response.writeHead(404, {"Content-type":'text/plain'});
            response.end()
        }


        //response.end();

} else {
        response.writeHead(404, {"Content-type":'text/plain'});
        response.write("Not Found");
        response.end()
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 447

Answers (2)

Golo Roden
Golo Roden

Reputation: 150614

Well, in your if case you always set the Content-Type header to text/plain, that's why your browser shows your text file inline. And for your PDF, text/plain is just the wrong one, it should be application/pdf, so you need to set the type dynamically.

If you want the browser to enforce a download, set the following headers:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="your filename…"
Content-Type: text/plain (or whatever your content-type is…)

Basically, this is what Express's res.download function does as well internally, so this function may be worth a look as well.

Upvotes: 1

jmingov
jmingov

Reputation: 14003

well, looks like the problem is that the pdf content type isnt text/plain.

Replace the content type to application/pdf

like:

response.writeHead(302, {"Content-type":'application/pdf'});

More info here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types and http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3778.txt

Upvotes: 1

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