How to allow dynamically created file to be downloaded in CherryPy?

Question

I'm trying to use CherryPy for a simple website, having never done Python web programming before.

I'm stuck trying to allow the download of a file that is dynamically created. I can create a file and return it from the handler, or call serve_fileobj() on the file, but in either case the contents of the file are simply rendered to the screen, rather than downloaded.

Does CherryPy offer any useful methods here? How can this be accomplished?

Answer 1

Add 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="<file>"' header to response