How to add Headers in HTTPContext Response in ASP.NET MVC 3?

Question

I have a download link in my page, to a file I generate by the user request. Now I want to display the file size, so the browser can display how much is left to download. As

Answer 1

Can you please try the following code and see if that works?

public FileStreamResult Index()
{
    HttpContext.Response.AddHeader("test", "val");
    var file = System.IO.File.Open(Server.MapPath("~/Web.config"), FileMode.Open);
    HttpContext.Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", file.Length.ToString());
    return File(file, "text", "Web.config");
}

"It works on my machine"

And I've tried without the Content-length header and Fiddler reports a content length header anyway. I don't think it's needed.