Our abc.tar.gz file sent using this django-sendfile was automatically getting unzipped by the browser

[sharrajesh]

our code that was exhibiting the problem

return sendfile(request, remote_agent_installer, attachment=True, attachment_filename=filename, mimetype='application/octet-stream', add_encoding_header=False)

our work around:
we added another param to not add content encoding.

---

Python27/Lib/site-packages/sendfile/init.py | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Python27/Lib/site-packages/sendfile/init.py b/Python27/Lib/site-packages/sendfile/init.py
index da16a83..eaa0157 100644
--- a/Python27/Lib/site-packages/sendfile/init.py
+++ b/Python27/Lib/site-packages/sendfile/init.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def _get_sendfile():

-def sendfile(request, filename, attachment=False, attachment_filename=None, mimetype=None, encoding=None):
+def sendfile(request, filename, attachment=False, attachment_filename=None, mimetype=None, encoding=None, add_encoding_header=True):
'''
create a response to send file using backend configured in SENDFILE_BACKEND

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def sendfile(request, filename, attachment=False, attachment_filename=None, mime
response['Content-Type'] = mimetype
if not encoding:
encoding = guessed_encoding

• if encoding:
• if encoding and add_encoding_header:
  response['Content-Encoding'] = encoding

return response