Pushing file name to browser

[pxlpluker]

Thank you very much.
I think that is exactly what I wanted.
I really could not find this info anywhere
Where could I find reference to this information?

Hakan Nilsson wrote:

>On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, pxlpluker wrote:
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>>I what to dynamically create a page that has download links to file
>>stored on disk.
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>>the part i don't know how to do (or if its possible) is to a different
>>name appear in the browser DL window.
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>>i.e. I want the files stored with a random string but when being DL to
>>have real name show in File Save dialog.
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>>in essence i want to push the file name to the browser
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>>Fred
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>This is not so much a python issue as it is an issue of knowing what the
>browsers do when they get special input.
>But, since I recently did this myself I have the answer handy. ;o)
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>Most browsers check the name between the last / and the end of the line
>(or "?" if you have extra get-parameters) and put that as default name in
>the file save-dialog. So all you need to do is something like the following:
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>info = { "filename": "apa.txt", "fileid": "10001" }
>the_url = '<a href="download.py/%(filename)s?id=%(fileid)s">%(filename)s</a>'%info
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>As far as I can tell you are only interested in the file id, then this
>should work with no problem for you and you can get the id-parameter
>through the standard cgi-object, or however you chose to do.
>The filename (essentially anything you chose to put between the / and the ?)
>will be available through an extra-path-info variable, probably also
>available in the standard cgi-object.
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>Hope this helps,
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>/Hakan
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