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Serving binary data from a cgi-script

Hi,

I'm having some problems serving binary data in a simple CGI-script.
I'm setting content-type ( "applicatio n/octet-stream" ), content-length
and Content-disposition and I think these are correct, but the size of
the served file/data is different than the source. The read and write
the data I'm doing a plain :

f = open (..., 'rb')
d = f.read(2048)
while d:
if not d: break
print d
d = f.read(2048)
f.close()

Any hints?

Best regards,
Thomas

Jul 19 '05 #1
2 2534
Thomas W wrote:
print d


Hi,

use sys.stdout.writ e instead, print is adding linebreaks ...

HtH, Roland
Jul 19 '05 #2
Yeah... I once spent ages going round in circles trying to track that
down. A happy way to spend an evening...

Regards,

Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python

Jul 19 '05 #3

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