I have a file that I make and zip up using the gzip module, the next thing I want to do is send that file into a socket that connects to a web browser. I know I have to change the Http response content-type to application/gzip, but how do I go about actually sending the binary of the gzip so the browser will download it properly?
Here is what I got so far
f_out = gzip.open('downloads.gz', 'wb')
f_in = open('file.txt', 'rb')
f_out.writelines(f_in)
f_in.close()
f_out.close()
#This all works
.....
def make_http_response(self, content, html_type='text/html'):
response_headers = {
'Content-Type': html_type+'; encoding=utf8',
'Content-Length': len(content),
'Connection': 'close',
}
response_headers_string = ''.join('%s: %s\n' % (k, v) for k, v in response_headers.iteritems())
response_proto = 'HTTP/1.1'
if(self.error):
response_status = '404'
response_status_text = 'Not Found'
else:
response_status = '200'
response_status_text = 'OK '
response = '%s %s %s' %(response_proto, response_status, response_status_text)
response = response + response_headers_string + '\n' + str(content)
return response
I pass in 'application/gz' for the html_type field
The problem is what content do I pass in I have a download.gz file in that I just created in the same directory how do I go about sending the binary to the make http response function? Thanks