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Eric Wilson
Eric Wilson

Reputation: 59405

How to allow dynamically created file to be downloaded in CherryPy?

I'm trying to use CherryPy for a simple website, having never done Python web programming before.

I'm stuck trying to allow the download of a file that is dynamically created. I can create a file and return it from the handler, or call serve_fileobj() on the file, but in either case the contents of the file are simply rendered to the screen, rather than downloaded.

Does CherryPy offer any useful methods here? How can this be accomplished?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1540

Answers (3)

David Morales
David Morales

Reputation: 910

Putting the previous answers from @varela and @JasonFruit together:

dynamic_content = "this was generated on the fly!"
cherrypy.response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="<file>"'
return dynamic_content

Upvotes: 1

JasonFruit
JasonFruit

Reputation: 7875

If you set the correct content type, you won't have to worry about it rendering in the browser when you return it unless it's appropriate. Try:

response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/foo'

(or whatever the correct MIME type for your content is) before you return the content.

Upvotes: 3

varela
varela

Reputation: 1331

Add 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="<file>"' header to response

Upvotes: 2

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