[CherryPy]Serve dynamic binary file in cherrypy?

[mep]

Hi,
After lookup in cherrypy site and google for a while, I haven't
found any information about cherrypy how to serve dynamic binary
file(some generated charts).Is there any easy way to do this?
In cherrypy 2.0 & python 2.4

 

[mep]

Resolved. Simplely specifiy content mime type before return.

 

[Remi Delon]

Hi,
After lookup in cherrypy site and google for a while, I haven't
found any information about cherrypy how to serve dynamic binary
file(some generated charts).Is there any easy way to do this?
In cherrypy 2.0 & python 2.4

Yes, there is an easy way: have your handler method return the binary
data, and set the Content-Type before returning the data, like this:

# class Root:
# def index(self):
# ... Generate binary data in "data" ...
# cpg.response.headerMap['Content-Type'] = 'image/gif'
# return data

Remi.