Streaming pdf with URLLib

Joel Goldstick joel.goldstick at columbuswebmakers.com
Fri May 22 06:48:16 EDT 2009


I think you misspelled 'Content-Disposition'

Aahz wrote:
> In article <04eacd56-5293-4553-bdb3-ad2e8266c6b0 at z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>,
> Scooter  <slbentley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>>
>> import urllib
>>
>> u = urllib.urlopen('https://myinternal.server/pdfs/pdfstreamer.aspx')
>> print 'Content-type: application/pdf\n\n'
>> # print 'Content-type: application/x-msdownload; name=\"FileName\"\n
>> \n'
>> # print 'Content-Dispostion: attachment; filename=\"FileName\"\r\n\n'
>>
>> pdfdoc = u.read()
>> print pdfdoc
>>
>> Hitting my pdfstreamer.aspx app directly through a browser renders a
>> pdf just fine. So now I'm attempting to use this python app on an
>> external webserver, access it as a cgi, to pull the pdf, and then re-
>> render it, but at that point it just shows me the raw pdf in
>> the browser.
> 
> What application type does the browser report?




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