We're sending a zip file download as a response like this:
$this->response->file( "/export/stuff.zip", array('downlaod'=>true, 'name'=>"stuff.zip") );
return $this->response;
This works fine, BUT the file is always named export.zip
. Our name
option does not seem to have any effect. We've also tried without the .zip extension. This is confusing because the name
options is shown here, in the docs.
What are we doing wrong?
Update: We figured out that the seemingly arbitrary name "export" is being copied from the name of the controller action. We changed the method name to "admin_exportt" and then we get exportt.zip every time. This isn't documented anywhere that I've seen.
We found where the name is handled in the source code (/lib/Cake/Nework/CakeResponse.php:1254) and it appears that it should either use the original file name, or whatever is specified in the name
options:
if (is_null($options['name'])) {
$name = $file->name;
} else {
$name = $options['name'];
}