diff --git a/ajax/genesis.php b/ajax/genesis.php
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+<?php
+
+// TODO:
+// * this thing needs to support HEAD and GET requests.
+//
+// * the url shall look like: http://whatever/owncloud/index.php/apps/office/ajax/genesis.php/1234
+// 1234 is the session id here; a database table maps that to a file in storage
+//
+// * GET requests have to support ranges
+// curl --user admin:admin -r 500-1000 -i http://whatever/owncloud/index.php/apps/office/ajax/genesis.php/1234
+//
+// hardcoding the served file with /welcome.odt for now is enough to unblock development
+// (that saves all db work for now)
+
+// Check if we are a user
+OCP\User::checkLoggedIn();
+
+$filename = "/welcome.odt";
+
+if(!\OC\Files\Filesystem::file_exists($filename)) {
+	header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
+	$tmpl = new OCP\Template( '', '404', 'guest' );
+	$tmpl->assign('file', $filename);
+	$tmpl->printPage();
+	exit;
+}
+
+$ftype=\OC\Files\Filesystem::getMimeType( $filename );
+
+header('Content-Type:'.$ftype);
+if ( preg_match( "/MSIE/", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] ) ) {
+	header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . rawurlencode( basename($filename) ) . '"' );
+} else {
+	header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=UTF-8\'\'' . rawurlencode( basename($filename) )
+										 . '; filename="' . rawurlencode( basename($filename) ) . '"' );
+}
+OCP\Response::disableCaching();
+header('Content-Length: '.\OC\Files\Filesystem::filesize($filename));
+
+OC_Util::obEnd();
+\OC\Files\Filesystem::readfile( $filename );