Sending file as an attachment

Question

in my attempt to send a file to the user iam using the following:

return static_file( filename, root='/home/nikos/public_html/static/files' )

But when it comes to .pdf files it opens them to the browser instead of just sendign the file and all other files like .docx it sends them with the filename being just 'file' and not with original file's filename.

How can i send the files properly as attachments?

shad0w_wa1k3r · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-24T14:52:59.573

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As mentioned in the docs you can simply pass a download=True argument and that should be it.

e.g.

return static_file(filename, root='/static/files', download=True)

You can also suggest a different filename for the download and pass that instead of True, e.g. download="Custom "+filename

edited Sep 24 '18 at 14:52

answered Sep 24 '18 at 14:47

shad0w_wa1k3r

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Thank you very much, the only problem now is that iam getting a `Unicode EncodingError` if i try to download Greek filenames. Can you help me on this issue too? – Νικόλαος Βέργος Sep 24 '18 at 16:15
I can help on that as well, but will need more details on the error. If you feel it's a small thing then add it to this question, else create a new one. – shad0w_wa1k3r Sep 24 '18 at 16:17
Thank you i have opened a new question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52475270/telling-apache-to-display-unicode-properly – Νικόλαος Βέργος Sep 24 '18 at 16:19
Actually after trying it, selecting the file for download i get an error `file not found` Any idea why it says that? – Νικόλαος Βέργος Sep 24 '18 at 20:51
Nope, no idea, maybe try `download=filename` instead for the same file, see if that works. Or, try printing the filename so that you may debug further. – shad0w_wa1k3r Sep 25 '18 at 05:36
That worked very well! When it comes to latin fileanmes though it returnes me the error `UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 14-33: ordinal not in range(128)` Any idea how can i send files with greek filenames as well? – Νικόλαος Βέργος Sep 25 '18 at 09:34

Sending file as an attachment

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