Download CGI

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:48:29 -0300, rodmc <userprogoogle-139 at yahoo.co.uk>  
escribió:

> I am trying to figure out how to create a Python script which will
> open a file from a folder outwith the public_html path and serve it
> directly to the user for downloading. The aim being so that the users
> cannot see where the file is served from. Is there an easy way to do
> this, or an HTML header I am missing or an easy way in Python?

Just emit the right Content-Type, maybe Content-Length, and the file  
contents itself.

#!/usr/bin/python

f = open("/path/to/file.jpg", "rb")
data = f.read()
f.close()

print "Content-Type: image/jpeg"
print "Content-Length: %d" % len(data)
print
print data

-- 
Gabriel Genellina