Problem serving blobs in GAE

Question

Im currently building an web-app that allows users to upload content via blobstore and to later download it.

However, the servlet that takes care of the download is called BlobServiceServlet and whenever a user downloads a blob, the filename is changed to "BlobServiceServlet" and the extension is also changed sometimes to .bin. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Answer 1

Add a "Content-disposition" header to the response.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Content-Disposition for an example.

E.g., in the handler,

self.response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=foo.doc'