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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions en/controllers/request-response.rst
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Expand Up @@ -495,6 +495,13 @@ You can accomplish that by using :php:meth:`Cake\\Http\\Response::withFile()`::
return $response;
}

// Prior to 3.4.0
$file = $this->Attachments->getFile($id);
$this->response->file($file['path']);
// Return the response to prevent controller from trying to render
// a view.
return $this->response;

As shown in the above example, you must pass the file path to the method.
CakePHP will send a proper content type header if it's a known file type listed
in `Cake\\Http\\Reponse::$_mimeTypes`. You can add new types prior to calling
Expand All @@ -509,6 +516,12 @@ the browser by specifying the options::
['download' => true, 'name' => 'foo']
);

// Prior to 3.4.0
$this->response->file(
$file['path'],
['download' => true, 'name' => 'foo']
);

The supported options are:

name
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